
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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Is Boredom a Bad Idea for Meditation?
Boredom can be made the object of meditation. You can take boredom as its own focus. Because it's a feeling state, andf if you can actually become paradoxicall you can become interested in boredom really - then it evaporates. There would't be a lot of sot of touchy feely religious stuff. And i think is terrible meditation, cause whenever i tried to do it, i j fell asleep. Do you get that complaint a lot from people? Wy, that's a pretty common hindrance. People often discover they're just kind of underslept, and they, the moment you give them the instruction to get comfortable and close their eyes, they they
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