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#227 — Knowing the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Meditation - What Are Your Current Favorite Exercises?

meditation is offered as a method of having some fundamental insight into that process such that you don't keep suffering to the same degree andnd in all the ordinary ways. The most common why thogh, the why that is certainly advocated by the buddhist tradition generally, isn't really intellectual curiosity. It's much more a matter of overcoming suffering. We all feel unhappy to one or another degree in our lives. And if you just wait long enough, you'll feel frus rated and annoyed and angry and sad and fearful and just tis.

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