27 'difficult questions' from last time plus the final 10 pages of WBIT

Which religion(s) claim that, at birth, people inherit a kind of moral confusion?

What word does Wright use instead of 'sutra'?

According to Wright, any universe will necessarily be one in which metaphysical truth and moral truth are aligned.

William James defined 'religion' as "belief that there is _________, and that our supreme good lies in ___________ there

Advanced meditators who have "lost a sense of essence fairly broadly" are described by Wright as ____________.

What does a man named Narayan tell Wright during their meditation retreat?

Nirvana is said to break a chain of ___ supposed causal links.

A neuroscientist with whom Wright speaks says that ___, what she refers to 'modules' as, ___ our perceptions of things.

What does Robert Wright describe doing on p. 249, in the midst of rethinking the meaning of his inner critical voice?

What does Wright say is a better translation for dukkha than 'suffering'?

Which one is *not* a member of what Wright calls "this three-part alignment"?

Humans tend to anticipate more in the way of enduring satisfaction from attainment of goals than will in fact transpire.

When meditating, Wright notices that his refrigerator _________.

What is the worst definition of 'tanha'?

"Maybe... the only way for complex consciousness to arise on this planet was for it to be _______ in the process."

How nuts does Wright want to be driven by people who support military interventions?

What does Wright say will help us overcome the cognitive biases that sustain tribalism?

Wright says that a more literally accurate translation of the ancient term that is commonly rendered as 'enlightenment'

Gilbert Harman, after studying "fundamental attribution error," wrote that there is ______ empirical basis for _____

"Many Buddhist teachings... could be lumped under the rubric of 'awareness of ________'", where "_____" means ______.

There is a single, official definition of enlightenment that has been endorsed by Buddhists of all stripes.

What does Wright say are the two most famously counterintuitive metaphysical truths in Buddhism?

According to Wright, Buddhism and natural selection agree on the fact that sentient life is a good thing.

The fact that satisfaction is temporary _______ within an evolutionary-psychology paradigm.

Robert Wright was raised as what kind of Christian?

There ______ lives have been transformed by meditative practice, according to Wright.

What does Wright call the particular moral challenge that centrally motivated the writing of the book? Overcoming _____.

Dukkha is translated by Jane the poet in the documentary as not meaning 'suffering', exactly, but '_________'.

Wright _____ that "the not-self experience" moves a person closer to moral truth.

What band is referenced in the first four pages of the reading?

The truths that Wright lists in the appendix of his book are rightly considered Buddhist doctrines.

There ____ a CEO self, according to Wright.

What is Wright's one-sentence answer to why Buddhism is true?

Which word appears on p. 248?

Which group of Buddhists are more preoccupied with 'not-self', and what is the word for it?

Strangely, Wright says, Buddhism tends to accentuate certain feelings, rather than suppressing all of them. He cites __.

Wright says that ___ scientific theories has/have been proven to be true.

Which feeling is mindfulness meditation *least* likely to accentuate?

Wright mentions that meditation can help you be more tolerant of people who _____________.

To what does 'dharma' refer? Select the best answer. (Read all four before answering.)

According to broad scientific consensus, here's been life on this planet for ___________.

Buddhism deserves credit, Wright says, for so _ diagnosing what he calls humankind's problem. (Choose the wrong answer.)

To a large extent, that's what Buddhist liberation is: a _ escape from chains of influence that had previously bound us.

What word is featured more times on pp. 251-252?