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Making Sense of Meditation

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Evolutionary Psychology in Political Thought

Until the advent of modern evolutionary psychology and some findings from experimental psychology in general, it was not possible to nail some of this stuff down. And if you look at societies that have been Buddhist historically, they have barely unimpressive political fortunes. So isn't it essentialist to act as if there's a single Buddhism? But I just think that for almost all of 2,500 years, it hasn't been possible to make the kind of argument I'm making.

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