I tried to understand what Heidegger is all about and after failed attempts at reading his books I turned to secondary sources instead. I read (but of course did not understand everything in) Herman Philipse's Heidegger's Question of Being and Richard Sembera's Rephasing Heidegger. I still don't have a clue as to what Heidegger is all about.

I am not interested in Heidegger's philosophy itself, actually. I just want to find out if Heidegger's thought is invalidating all I believe in, which is a Buddhism based on evolutionary psychology, rather like Robert Wright's. Since I don't know what Heidegger really says, I cannot be sure if he already pre-empted buddhism and science altogether.

He is a philosopher that lived after Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer had already introduced Buddhism to Western thought and synthesized it with Kantian philosophy. Nietzsche however didn't think much of it and rejected most parts of Schopenhauer's thought, including the Buddhism. Heidegger, as Rorty introduces him, was naturalized Nietzssche's thought even more, clipping away the residues of metaphysics. So it is apparently the last word in Western philosophy, unless we want to bring in Derrida as further naturalizing Heidegger's thought. So as far as I can understand, if Heidegger thought little of Buddhism, then it must be a false philosophy. It does talk about seeing the world as it is behind the illusion of maya anyway. From what I learn from Rorty, talking of the inherent nature of the world is a no no.

What I want thought is just my Dawkinsian gene-centred simplified view of life, and to build on that a buddhist life philosophy of coping with the predicament this same gene-centred view puts us in. And I still don't know if Heidegger makes it all impossible because he somehow refuted the ground all of these stand upon. Any help?