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#111 — The Science of Meditation

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Meditation

Every major' spiritual tradition, certainly in eurasia, has had an esoteric centre. Even among monks and nuns, not everybody will do that. It takes a particular kind of dedication,. Those are the people who go the deepest. Then therere the meditative traditions as they've been brought from asia to the west. The lot's been left behind, but it's accessible to a larger swath of people. And then there's the remove beyond that, where you've got mindfulness every kind in schools and businesses and so on. So i think that generally there's a trade off between doing a little bit and lots of people doing it, or doing it very intensely and very deeply

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