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LIFE IS SHORT: The Upside of Death

The Next Big Idea

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The Objective of Meditation Should Be Much Like the Objective of Therapy Should Be Like

Dean Obeidallah: I think the objective of meditation should be to make itself unnecessary. He says that in a state of non duality, you're not a self anymore and can watch your ego a little bit better. There is progress apparently being made in life extension there's a lot of talk these days about the possibility of adding a few decades to our lives. Would you like to live for 800 years or whatever it was that Moses and Adam were living to that sounds about right?

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