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#102 - Is Buddhism True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Meditation

The not self experience is challenging because Hindus believe the self does exist or at least the soul or or something and so you know i taught a course at Princeton on this stuff turned it into an online course on Coursera. If you're a Buddhist you might have this what is largely the same experience and view it as this experience of emptiness because the self doesn't exist if you're a Hindu you might view it as some kind of union of your soul or self with the universal soul or self right when the barriers the borders around the self breakdown but it's an interesting take on that too. I think Gary Weber feels this kind of thing on a much more ongoing basis now he's an interesting

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