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#111 — The Science of Meditation
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Meditation
Most people have had this experience of being in a movie theatre and completely losing awareness that your the theatre, that you're sitting in a chair. That is what we would call experiential fusion, where thereis no medawareness. But we can be equally attentive to the movie and sitting in the theatre, and in the background, recognize that we're sat in a theatre. And that would be akin to having met awareness, which is that background recognition. In the case of thoughts, it's recognizing that these are thoughts. This is not who we are, but rather,These are thoughts. I like that analogy for many reasons, although is potentially misleading for some people. It really is
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