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The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Walking Meditation

The way you explain things just resonates with me, and it might not resonate with the next person. What pleases us most in those moments when we are fully captured by experience is thethe state of complete attention to the present. Anything that you can pay attention to to exclusion of anything else, can suddenly disclose what it's like to have a very concentrated mind. And concentration is intrinsically pleasurable. This is why meditation can have the character of a kind of drug experience. You can get kind of addicted to the changes in state you experience in meditation. But it's not the deepest practice itself, because it's an impermanent state of your focus. Yot, just sharing one example

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