
#68 — Reality and the Imagination
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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The Importance of Mindfulness Meditation
Vipassana is really about observing reality as it is and being able to distinguish between what is real and what is just a story or a fantasy created by our own minds. It has a very deep impact on my interpretation of history because also when I look at history for me the big question is what are real and what are fictions created by human beings. We can do that because we believe in fictions if you examine any large-scale human cooperation you always find a fictional story at the basis whether it's about God or money or even human rights like God in heaven they are just a story invented by humans they are not a biological reality. This is again the source of power and
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