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#4 — The Path and the Goal

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Mindfulness - The Best Way to Be Aware of Your Subjective Experience

mindfulness is a tool to be as aware as possible of the actual character of your subjective experience. And it's in that context that you can discover whether or not this thing you call yourself exists the way you have always thought it does. One of the things we discover through the simple introspection and observation is to see what patterns of thought and emotion create suffering for ourselves and others, and how to be free of that suffering. We become much more expert in terms of understanding our own minds and our own conditioning.

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