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#181 — The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Meditation

meditation is not narrowly based on the peripheral scientific claims for it that have been so hyped in the media. It probably does reduce stress, and that's probably good for you, but that's not its core purpose. We have to get out of the religion business. And who yet understand what consciousness is like beyond the illusion of the self? I am merely practising this understanding.

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