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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Unchanging Qualitative Character of Consciousness

The uniqueness of each conscious experience as being highly informative rules out so many other conscious experiences in meditation. What you're focusing on is the qualitative character of consciousness that is unchanged by experience. The Tibetan Buddhists talk about one taste and there's basically a single taste to everything when you really pay attention. And it is because these intrinsic properties of consciousness are what have become salient, not the differences between experiences.

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