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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Promise of Non-Duality and Emptiness

It's a way of understanding how differently the world can appear based on you making changes to your conceptual apparatus, your modes of attention. It's possible to change the world, but it is also possible to change your mind such that you are inhabiting a very different world. And that's the promise of lots of religious and philosophical systems. That’s the promise of Epicurean and Stoic practice. Paul Churchland in his old book, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind makes the point that all you need to do is to go out into the night sky and locate the ecliptic and hold your eyes parallel to it for long enough. You can transform your

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