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#63 — Why Meditate?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Mindfulness

There's another level there where the choicelessness is actually the deeper insight in that if you can truly be mindful of the anger, say, that was there a moment ago as anger because you were identified with thought and not being mindful. So the agenda goes away in that moment of mindfulness. And I think in all the meditative traditions that's understood in the Tibetan tradition and certainly in Tairada tradition, there are practices which help to stabilize that deeper level.

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