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Sam Harris: Trump, Consciousness, and the Jordan Peterson Debate

The Rubin Report

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Sense of Being a Self in Relationships

The feeling of being a self is yet another object in consciousness. When i'm really paying attention to you, i lose the sense that i'm over here paying attention toyou. There really is just the world, and you're part of it. That's the insight that's often described as emptiness, r or or selflessness by buddhist texts. You can feel vividly that ever, that everything you experience in each moment is just a matter of ness and its contents. The more you keep dropping back into that position of just being the space in which everything is arising, then you can notice that it doesn't actually feel like what you take yourself to be at all.

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