#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
Mindfulness Meditation Is Not Stress Reduction
Iman: It's never been clear to me really why this sort of revelation of no self isn't like sort of discovering that everyone you know and love, including you, is already dead. I mean, it's itself a kind of devastating discovery. And in fact, there's this idea of mindfulness meditation as a kind of therapy that is stress reducing. But thre are some aspects of the buddhist tradition in which meditation of this kind is not really stress reduction. It's a form of stress induction. What what i feel like might be having it both ways is a kind of picture of mindfulness, meditation on which both the process, the process itself involves stress reduction, and the
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