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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Alusoryness of the Self

The Buddha's whole project was to diagnose why we suffer and an insight into selflessness is at the root of the remedy there. For me personally, being able to experience the alusoryness of the self has been the most important thing I've ever learned in my life. And that isn't a not a claim that needs to be taken on faith by anyone. It's merely an empirical claim that is there to be investigated.

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