#102 - Is Buddhism True?
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Happiness in Life
The half life of our pleasures are never what we seem to expect and in the book you describe a evolutionary rationale for why that would be so. We systematically overestimate how good things will change us in the positive direction and how bad things willchange us in the negative direction but it's always an illusion. Buddhism was ahead of the game I mean in in Buddhism this phenomenon of like the fleeting this of gratification and our failure to really see it is part of a larger phenomenon of the impermanence of things generally, says David Walliams.
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