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Sam Harris on Islam, Dropping Acid, Joe Rogan, Vaccine Pseudoscience, the Wonders of Meditation, Collaborating with Ricky Gervais, and the Myth of Free Will

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The Source of the Goodness of the Thing in the World

Meditation is the only thing that human eans have ever devised to seize the reins of attention directly andand no longer. Once you know how to meditate, you can make any experience, including surfing and skeing, a circumstance of the same kind of profound engagement of attention. It improves all those other moments. But you're notyou kno, i no, no matter how much you serf and ski or run or play music or anything else, thatthe people do to feel good. None of that aly teaches you how to improve the quality of your attention generically. That's what meditation is. The gateway really is to become interested in the discomfort as boredom you experience

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