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#63 — Why Meditate?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Can Meditation or Mindfulness Be Bad for You?

Is there a period in one's practice where seeing more actually just translates into more suffering or new kinds of suffering that wouldn't be there otherwise? I think for different people at different times, it's not, I would say it's not recommended certainly in terms of intensive, silent retreat. For example, if somebody is really suffering from a deep depression, the isolation of a meditation retreat where people are in silence and not talking might be counter productive. What might be needed more is some kind of engagement with other people with therapeutic skills.

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