#102 - Is Buddhism True?
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Status Quo Bias in Meditation
There's something, I guess we could call it kind of status quo bias here. It's not really well understood that just by looking at the drapes, as you say, most people aren't in a good position even to begin to pay attention. And there really is a scope for real training here even to get to the starting line in terms of understanding what there is to pay attention to and what the consequences of noticing it might be. But with meditation you really do have the problem where you can recommend it to a skeptical person they can think they've tried it and they've come away thinking that it doesn't work for them. People are practicing some elaborate form of self-de
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