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#102 - Is Buddhism True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Mindfulness Meditation

In the book I try to provide this backstory in the book because I think it is useful for some people in when they're doing something that as mindfulness meditators encourage you to do. It's important or it can be useful to anyone and including someone who does mindfulness meditation to get clear on when feelings are actually useful, he says. The author also talks about how our drive for status during evolution seems to be correlated to genetic proliferation so we tend to seek it. He concludes by saying: "I would say look if you love it go for it"

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