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#181 — The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Meditation and the Blind Spot

Meditation is the training that allows you to see something right on the surface of consciousness. The feeling of being an ego in your head, a think in addition to the next arising thought, can't be one's true point of view. There is no self who could enjoy this spurious power of free will. This is directly suggested by what we know is going on in the world inside our heads.

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