Charles Fisher talks about Dismantling Discontent: Buddha's Way Through Darwin's World.
Charles Fisher offers a view of existential suffering from the viewpoints of Darwin and Buddha, synthesizing their two approaches and offering a new approach. He discusses overcoming the incompatibility of these two very different ways of knowing.
Bio
Dr. Charles Fisher
Around 1993 Charlie Fisher began work on the two books Dismantling Discontent and Meditation in the Wilds: Recluses, Hermits and Forest Monks. In 1997 Charlie moved to California where he now lives under redwood trees north of San Francisco. He has taken First Nation's youth on field trips in northern British Columbia, occasionally teaches meditation, is an associate of a financial planning firm (www.abacuswealth.com) and spends time meditating and looking at birds, flowers, and insects.