This is an excerpt from our upcoming book Wisdom in Buddhism Whatever you believe, remember that you may be wrong. You need to be fearless about thinking, because sometimes you’re going to be wrong. And when you’re wrong it's going to hurt. The difficult thing about being wrong, is that it feels exactly the same as being right. You feel, clever, righteous, vindicated, honourable, exonerated and smug, just like if you were right. “The moon is made of cheese,” feels exactly

We can all remember at least one occasion where we have been SO RIGHT, then proved SO WRONG. We held one idea or fact that we were resolutely certain about, then, upon cross examination we were proved absolutely, demonstrably, profoundly wrong. At best, it’s a little embarrassing. At worse it can be dangerous to ourself and others. Until we discover we’re wrong, we feel just the same as if we’d been right. The same. No different. The moon is made of cheese feels exactly th