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#102 - Is Buddhism True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Mindfulness in Meditation

The idea of not self in Buddhist philosophy and I would say to the experience of not self but you know in the book I make a kind of a distinction between the interior not self experience and the exterior. If you come to view feelings and thought the things inside your mind with a sufficient you know and thorough going enough kind of non-attachment then there's certainly less solidity to the self, he says. He adds that it may sound scary the idea of losing yourself in some sense but it tends to feel good.

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