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#63 — Why Meditate?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Discipline in Meditation

In virtually any tradition, there's an acknowledgement that there are certain classically positive mental states that are a better foundation for exploring than the classically negative mental states. And this is, I think, a cautionary note. It's very easy to bypass. You know, sometimes people talk about emotional bypass and they jump to a level where, oh, everything's empty. There's also, you could call it a meditative bypass.

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