Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Removing Expectations
When you go on intensive retreat in the Burmese tradition you're given a different set of expectations and it's one that I think is ultimately misleading right. You're left with a kind of vigil that is implicitly at least if not explicitly waiting for something to happen there's no reason to pay attention to the breath really unless you're waiting for some improvement. The point of all of this is to uproot negative emotions or do we do we have to do something about a dog or are you talking yes does that dog speak English?
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