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Making Sense of Meditation

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Spirituality

The well-being of any conscious creature is the most important thing, right? It's more important than anything else we're up to. There are neurological reasons why paying attention in certain ways constitutes meditation and paying attention in other ways doesn't. I don't see that there's any kind of line between spirituality or ethics rightly understood and a scientific understanding of what's happening.

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