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Huberman Lab · April 17, 2023 · 2h48m
Dr. Sam Harris: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind
Sam Harris explains meditation not as relaxation but as the investigation of consciousness itself. The conversation covers why the self is an illusion, how meditation reveals this, and the relationship between mindfulness and free will.
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Meditation is not relaxation; it is the rigorous investigation of the nature of consciousness itself
Harris argues that most people misunderstand meditation as stress reduction. Real meditation is the systematic investigation of subjective experience, leading to the discovery that the sense of self is a construction, not a given.Highlights
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Free will is an illusion that meditation makes experientially obvious, not just philosophically arguable
Harris explains that meditation reveals the absence of free will not through argument but through direct observation: when you closely observe the arising of thoughts and intentions, you see they appear from nowhere and are not authored by a self.Was this useful?