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Dolly Chugh, How Good People Fight Bias

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

Is There a Self in Meditation?

A lot of people worry that we are trying to detach. There's a reason why meditation teachers are super persnickety about language because the goal here isn't to be detached from your emotions. Buddhist teachers often before the term non-attachment or non-identification. You aren't trying to make yourself into a zombie, you're trying to have a different relationship to your emotions so that you're not acting them out blindly and overly personalizing them.

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