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#320 - Constructing Self and World

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Predictive Presence in Meditation

The purpose of a meditation journey is to come to see all these layers as empty and be able to modulate them. The high-level priors include our preferences, goals, and so they tend to lose their grip. By seeing the self as empty or as illusory, a lot of the kind of normal goals and wants and not wants associated around the self go away. And we start to act in the world that is less selfish.

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