Sam Harris basically unlocks the secret to life

Taken from JRE Episode 940
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[BeforeThisNovember]

I love how they kept that last sentence from JR in there 😂

[MosesRabuka]

“Confusion and suffering may be our birthright but wisdom and happiness are available” ~ Sam Harris

[ShaneNull]

What’s wild is Buddha and people before him taught this stuff thousands of years ago yet our education and culture conditions us to live hyper sensitively within delusion of ignorant thoughts of desire and aversion

[vozza]

Joe rogan at the end of his long rant of wisdom:

“now we were talking about your apps” hahaha

[sumitkommando]

I wish I could describe this to people with this level of articulation and clarity.

[jmenhart]

I meditate just a few minutes a day during my lunch break and merely doing this has allowed me to notice my thoughts when they’re out of control and it really is like a superpower. Noticing anger for example, allows it to wash over my awareness and disappear like a wave when I observe it.

[askcoacheric]

This is spot on. I do TM regularly and it helps with everything he mentioned. I even stubbed my toe recently and just noticed that pain was occurring, but didn’t judge that pain or feel indifferent to it. It actually felt like the pain was no different than a feeling of hot or cold, and it went away a lot faster.

That probably sounds weird, but if you know you know.

[legrandhanf]

Sam Harris: Spends 4:20 giving one of the best explanations between the mind, suffering and the power of meditation
Joe in the end: “So we were just talking about your apps”

[JAK]

Sam Harris has a real talent for explaining meditation and it’s benefits through analogy. So clear and concise that anyone can understand.

[juicybear]

I used to have similar conversations like this with my cousin. We called it being "clicked in" or "clicked out". It was basically going from being on autopilot to having this hyper awareness of ones thoughts. It's like waking up when you are already awake. I still do it often enough but not as much as I used to. I also found it quite distressing and felt as if I wasn't really in control of myself due to this autopilot mode which made me feel horrified and sad. Now I just accept it as reality. And know that I cannot change it but can make the best of it.

[hatethetube]

Remember that scene in “the punisher” when he “tortures” a guy with a torch? That guy was suffering but not in any pain.

[williamdanmarkj]

For those of you who don't know about Sam Harris's meditation app, that question from Joe is perfect immediately after Sam Harris "unlocks the secret to life" where after this explanation will most likely be when listeners want to know more about Sam's work.

[GODMODE]

This is basically what you learn when your mind is clear and unperturbed by the constant mental chatter of the mind. If you practice meditation daily you will discover this. Even from this though, there are deeper states of conscious beyond just calm mindfulness alone.

[ruilinyang]

Sam Harris: Unlocks the secret to life
Joe: Now we were talking about your app

[ThePageNo]

Seeing past the voice in your head is avaliable in every single moment of your life, even intense pain. It can be possible to reach a point where your reaction to any event can be massively reduced but even the involuntary reaction to intense pain is just appearing with everything else. If identification with the thing you think you are (but you aren't - ie voice in the head/self) moment to moment stops occuring (by just going to the raw experience of what is happening right now subjectively), the vast majority of the neurosis stops with it because the view point that was perpetuating the thoughts disappears. What's left is just the never ending peace which was always there in the first place :)

[thejuiceweasel]

Sam's own "Waking Up" meditation course is just what I needed. No spiritual or religious components, very clear, concise and great for beginners and skeptics. The fact that he doesn't advertise it all the time is a good sign, because it's very much a word of mouth enterprise.

[infotainment]

Buddhism has been telling humanity this for 2500 years, cudos for Sam spreading the words.

[slushyslimshady]

So, basically, we've naturally automated our detrimental behaviors/perceptions, but they can be corrected by practicing awareness.

[jimmypeach]

I just came out of didn't know what the topic he was going to speak on but as soon as he mentioned Meditation I know he was going in the right direction. It is so powerful to stop the white noise and helps you realize you are not that chatter and you feel for people who connect with their mental babble like a ship caught in a giant whirlpool.... most powerful thing Ive found

[mozes]

He just rolled Eckart Tolle’s entire “The Power of Now” into 4:23