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#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

The Illusion of the Self

Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Vajrayana all teach that self is a subject in the center of experience. Most people don't merely feel identical to experience: They feel like they're having an experience. That's the default state for more or less everybody as far as I can tell. And it's a peculiar point of view as commonplace as it is.

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