![]() ![]() ![]() Those include eating food so we stay alive, having sex - things like that. Natural selection built us to do some things, a series of things that help us get genes into the next generation. It's a respectable translation, but a lot of people think that that word would be just as well translated as "unsatisfactoryness."Ĭertainly when you think about the logic of natural selection, it makes sense that we would be like this. And, in fact, people may have heard that Buddhism says that life is full of suffering, and it's true that suffering is the translation of the word dukkha. So we find ourselves in a state of almost perennial dissatisfaction. This was in the Buddha's first sermon after his enlightenment is that a big source of our suffering is that we crave things, we want things, but then the gratification tends not to last. On how natural selection is at odds with the Buddhist notion that pleasure is fleeting Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Why Buddhism Is True Subtitle The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment Author Robert Wright ![]()
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