The Importance of Non-Dual Mindfulness

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In the zogchen tradition, thoughts are like thieves entering an empty house where there's no place for them to land. This kind of personhood may be incompatible with having a special attachment to one's kids but then what is you actually experiencing? I've never experienced that kind of detachment from ordinary emotions and have even been told my mindfulness has made me a psychopath on some level. The most important aspect of this though is again comes back to suffering in the end of suffering if you it's like you're you you find yourself in a position where you're suffering and then the question is how much do you want to suffer?"

Sam Harris returns to the podcast to talk about meditation and his new Waking Up meditation app. What are the goals of mindfulness practice - stress reduction and greater focus, or something much deeper? Can it cure David's existential dread? Tamler's fear of his daughter going away to college? Can sustained practice erode the illusion of self? Is that even something we'd want to do? What if it diminishes our attachment to people we love? And what is the self anyway? Is Sam a defender of panpsychism? So many questions... Plus, the ethics of creating talking elephants by curing them of their autism through bonding and possibly mounting. (Seriously.)

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