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You are Not Your Brain

The Contemplative Science Podcast

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You Are Not Your Brain

The word meditation, like almost everything else in this culture has become so debased. It's largely determinist and very much doesn't really believe in free will. So when I say that You Are Not Your Brain, I'm trying to make the point that at least one aspect of what we do with our mind can be understood in terms of active free will. And that one thing is choices you make about how you focus your attention.

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