The ultimate fruition of practice cannot be an incapacity for thought, right? It can't be a thought free state because your Buddha's need to be able to function in the world. You don't want to be catatonic as a yogi or as a meditator. And there's also these experiences people have in meditation where the mind becomes really skylike and there are no clouds in it. So then you become a kind of heroin addict of your own meditational efforts - seeking pleasure.
Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial — public intellectuals. In this bonus episode, he and Rufus talk about consciousness, free will, morality, and people’s stubborn insistence on being irrational.