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#4 — The Path and the Goal

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Basic Instruction Is the Simple

If you want to understand your mind, sit down and observe it. How else can we understand our minds, except by observing? So the ye, the accessibility of itn the common sense of it was so striking to me. It's al it's always a matter of not being lost in thought about the experience,. noticing thought as thought, and noticing the character of experience with interest. And without grasping at pleasant and pushing away the ontlaexeti simply bein aware what's arising.

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