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#102 — Is Buddhism True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Meditation

There's something, i guess we could call a kind of status quo bias here. It's not well understood that the mind, in terms of its raw attention, the powers of attention, can be trained. Most people aren't in a good position even to begin to pay attention. And so this is a real barrier that a lot of people never surmount,. which is why taking psychodelics has been the doorway to a real commitment to meditation for so many people in the west.

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