“This is the irony: Buddhist meditation teachers counsel a kind of
detachment that should in theory leave you neither happy nor sad. But by
the end of one of these retreats, almost invariably, you’re happy. And
you’re happy in particular ways: more appreciative of beauty, feeling
more distance from ordinary anxieties, feeling more kinship with other
humans and with other forms of life. You’re also easier to be
around—less defensive, less emotionally reactive, etc.”
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Robert Wright |
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