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Rob Burbea - Meditation Fantasies & The Soulmaking Dharma

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

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The Different Fantasies People Have About Meditation

I was listening to Sam Harris interview, Richie Davis and Dan Goldman. They kind of completely expressed meditation as this practice of cultivating meta awareness in order to create a healthier brain. And so I wonder, maybe that might be a good place to kind of turn towards like, what are the fantasies that you've identified that typically people are sort of operating on behalf of when it comes to meditation? Yeah, I can't remember. Let's see. Well, yeah, I mean, for example, right?Yeah, it's like the kind of medical model. You're taking pain disease suffering and the point of the path is to eradicate or at least reduce as much as possible that suffering. So

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