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25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Mindfulness Is About Concentration, Concentration and Concentration

Having a concentrated mind is intrinsically pleasurable. And it can become just an ocean of bliss and very drug like by paying sufficiently close attention to any arbitrary object. The person who thinks that the only way to have a deep flow experience is to get up at four in the morning and grab the surf board, they're mistaking the point of access. But mindfulness is actually an independent principle from that. It's about noticing how xperience is without trying to change it.

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