I'm glad he did, now I know it was a podcast and I can listen to all of it

@@RL-fr4hf kinda says so in the description.

@@omp365 right but I wouldn't have known to look for it

All that knowledge and Joe moves straight on to the apps

@@liamc7097 did he say apps or abs? 😂

What is he is saying resonates with and will further white supremacy. These techniques don’t work for POC, trans, LatinX and other oppressed communities.

@@chamade166 these techniques come from POC with much deeper histories of suffering than what contemporary people experience. the meditation tradition that Sam works in did not originate in Europe, as far as I know, but in Asia. Buddhism is much bigger in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia than it is in the West, even today. the worst things that happen to POC people (the deaths of their family members and their own deaths) happen to every white person. the religions that are strong outside of North America and Europe largely have doctrines that are compatible with the ideas he describes here (i.e. God is in control and you don't need to worry too much about what's going on here because it's just a test so follow a few rules and then spend the rest of your time contemplating God and how he is in control)

@@bbqnice1 its a troll

@@chamade166 Lol, good one.

I’m latinx and these techniques saved my life

Except Joe

It really is quite a hard thing for myself to try pass on to my loved ones

At the same time is a raging islamaphobic ahole

@@arslanakakamina anyone with a functioning brain should be

@@arslanakakamina not really.

What is he is saying resonates with and will further white supremacy. These techniques don’t work for POC, trans, LatinX and other oppressed communities.

@@joec7401 Yeah I'm in America, google hungry ghost realm lol this is our dark age

@@chamade166 are you aware that Buddha was a POC? or that there are literally millions of POC around the world that use these techniques daily for like 2500 years?

@@ShaneNull Nah man, Buddha was from Lawrence, Kansas lol. His real name was actually Randy.

@@chamade166 you people are literally insane. 1. The Buddha was Indian/nepali 2. You think that POC have brains different from white people? What kind of an evil racialist worldview is that!? 3. Why are you so obsessed with whatever disadvantages the world presents you, while refusing to take any postivie steps for yourself?

@@dixienormus8231 clear your mind think about nothing basically there’s different ways to mediatate but simply being aware of your thoughts and then stopping them I for example will have bad thoughts that I don’t like and I simply breath and stop having thoughts and just listen to myself breath for me it’s about not letting my thoughts control me and realizing my thoughts are simply just thoughts there ultimately nothing until you you make that thought effect you it’s like strengthening your mind these people that are sad all the time can actually do something about it I know that sounds rude and insensitive but it’s true the more you become aware of your mind and don’t let thoughts dictate your life you leave yourself open to more happiness this is just me and how I am maybe other people have a different view but mediation is not hard you can do it right now and it’s extremely impactful and can help you and your mental strength

That’s easy. The super power comes when you can ignore cancer or having a nail driven through your knee. Being able to withstand a massage, a cold shower or a day’s fast is hardly a superpower.

@@jonahsd1818 I don't think "stopping your thoughts" is good advice. I'd rather say: "watch reality". Be mindful of what's happening, be mindful of your thoughts and observe them without engaging with them. You can't control your thoughts, you can't guess what your next thought is going to be. Thoughts just pass through us like water in a river. The river just keep flowing through us, but we don't need to follow it nor be drown by it. When we meditate, we can sit on the side of the river and observe its flow. We can watch our thoughts without following them. At least that's how I see it.

@@dixienormus8231 if you have spotify go check alan watts piece called " listen " its just 16 mins i guess and it helps plus what he is saying here is already said in that piece

#TM

Love that

Can you explain your medication

Long post but I think it worth while to share. When I was a kid, my father used to say this thing to me over and over again. And idk why it’s just stick with me through the years. He said “those who you allow to anger you, have complete and total control of you and over you.” The older I got the more it began to make sense, and the more all of this current outrage in our society begins to make even more sense. People get angry online (Facebook for example) from a political post right? So immediately, as soon as the angered person decides to devote time to replying in anger back to the original poster, right at the very moment he surrenders his control. He’s no longer the one controlling his own mind. Somebody else is. The one who elicited that emotional angry response has control over them. Then you think how often does that happen? Millions of times a day. So there are quite literally millions upon millions of people who do not have control of their minds and emotions. Yet they don’t realize that’s what’s happening. It’s no wonder civil unrest and anxiety is so high. No one is control of their own thoughts anymore. This is compounded on top of the fact that coders from these social sites have admitted they created algorithms to put information in front of people that will make them angry or upset. Not because they want people to be mad all the time. But because by being upset, users will engage with the post more, stay on the site longer, and ultimately have more adverts put in front their faces aka, more money for the company. These sites are literally profiting from the anger of its users. And again, they are trapped, because again like I mentioned they’re not in control of their own minds anymore being in a constant state of anger and frustration toward others.

@@iLoveLucyy he never mentions meds, he mentioned mindfulness meditation

@@Sprite_525 talking about power dynamics, racial equity

Sam Harris has an app for meditation, so he was probably gonna talk about that.

There are a lot of concepts that fly above poor Joe's head...

@@TheJimbles He was going to segway to his meditation apps, which is still on the topic of mindfulness and meditation.

"now we were talkin about your abs"

@@HannyDart That's what I thought at first lol

Me too me too. If only we weren't retarded... Hey wanna try and escape from the asylum again tonight? I paid the guard in cheese so don't they'll be, "ASLEEP"

@@inspiringmedia3716 That’s why learning to speak is important, communication is everything, if you can translate thoughts to speech you have made it in life, took me 2 years to slowly learn and train but i got it now.

send them this video haha

@@camile9626 SPEAKY MAN GOES SPEAK SPEAK!!! I GO GRUNTT

That’s just another thought. Don’t worry about it :)

Hahaha exactly my thought

“So we were just talking about your abs”

Sam Harris runs a meditation app (Waking Up), Joe was probably mentioning that.

420 nice

Bringing it back down to earth for his audience is my guess

Only if it was only Buddhism i like their idea of good and bad more than any other religion. Its as Christopher Marlowe said I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

The Buddhists, the Stoics, the Taoists. They all had similarly profound insights into consciousness and the human experience, thousands of years ago and yet still very relevant.

And yet they fixed nothing and suffering still continues on.There is no solution to these problems. They are just tied to current form of existence.

@@HeelPower200 well they fixed it for the ones who tried to be fixed. Only you can fix yourself type of thing. You can't expect that just because the philosophy exists it should fix you, have you practiced it? Assimilated it into your every breathing moment of existence? If not then how can you say it hasn't fixed you yet? I mean those who practice those philosophies are clearly in a better mental state than most of us who don't.

Hindus, Ancient Tamils have mentioned this for over 15,000. Lord Siva was the first yogi.

Buddha himself didn't want Buddhism to happen (as a religion) Meditation is just lifting weights for your mind 😊

I desperately need to look into it. I need to learn how to meditate

What we think is ‘’thinking," or "our thoughts" is actually just a pre recorded or conditioned message in your subconscious mind. 99% of us think we are controlling the narrative but we are not seeing the forest from the trees. We don’t have the ability to "observe" our thoughts because we are so deeply connected to the recordings. ❤

@@dickvalentinesillegitimate1059 Have you attempted it?

@@hoovesandpawsanimalrescue Rare truth told here. I was once told 80-85% of the population is not 'conscious'. That's because nearly all we do is by rote. That's how we sometimes catch ourselves 'going' somewhere, but forgetting why or how. Besides general absent mindedness (great choice of words!) there's literal unconscious motion taking place. Rote. As you said, subconscious patterns.

nah scientific materialism is a plague

This is Indian yoga/meditation philosophy. This isn't an original idea from Sam Harris.

But if it werent for white trust fund new atheists, who would ever know about such a things?

@@LiMitZplus religion is the plague 😂

@@benjaminberry6095 both are

Can you elaborate on the ending?

Nope, these techniques are much much older than any new book

What do u mean? If it was the entire book, he would have made up a bunch of new agey terms! Then made u into your own enemy, calling your thoughts and emotions the ego and pain body, accordingly. ;)

@@mejohn101 You didn't read the book or it went over your head. He makes a point about not making the ego out to be something "bad" that you have to fight/conquer. He talks about keeping a neutrality with the ego and pain.

He's just using lexicon that is in your comfort zone. Reality is beyond concept. All words, no matter what, can only point to this truth, they are not the truth. Ultimately you want to be in a state of "not knowing", in order to fully transcend the mind. By reducing the teaching of presence into a materialistic framework, you risk the ego taking hold in a new form/fashion. The ego is just using the technique to get one up on the universe and it will ultimately lead back to suffering, for yourself and others.

@@bmatthews15 "The ego becomes a monstrous parasite that, unchecked, may well end up killing all life on the planet and finally itself by” Well ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Well if a monstrous parasite isn't "bad", it certainly isn't very good either. I actually enjoy much of his work, but comments like this on the ego, the mind and the pain body can turn people against themselves and their natural feelings. I have seen a great deal of this in my field- people having very painful situations in life and feeling quite miserable about it- and instead of having understanding and compassion for what they are going thru, they think it is the ego or pain body and further judge themselves instead of working on their healing. Again, a lot of his work is truly beautiful, but his understanding of the inner world is sophomoric at best.

Meditation can help you over time to train your brain to spend more time “awake”

Gotta learn how to be in control of that auto pilot mode and direct that energy towards the grind instead

I think I do not have an autopilot function.. if I try I can remember exactly what I did yesterday dowm to the minutia.

@@Jack-yq6ui then the question becomes, are you just in autopilot saying that? I think we all have an auto pilot and an alert sense of awareness. Its just our brains. We conserve energy by getting up and taking a piss without thinking because it doesnt require brainpower. Just a thought.

I feel like i've instinctually been aware of all this stuff but the video and comments like this do allow me to do these things and be aware of the conscious abilities we have more readily. like also i feel that growing up as i've tried to be more outgoing and that sort of thing, that I desire to be clicked out and just maybe in a "reactive" mode like Sadghuru says, so that my brain and words can flow a bit freely in social situations or whatever. but my thing is that growing up I felt almost constantly "clicked in". like idk if I have several OCD/ADHD or autistic traits or something but particularly as a younger guy I felt clicked in almost all the time and I wasn't very anxious (only really shy, sometimes kindof anxious around strangers trying to engage me), but it felt as if I was just hyper aware of a lot of shit (especially my body sensations) and sometimes wished that I was "less aware" or something so that I could have a calmer mind or calm down or something. idk I thought something was wrong with me edit: I think this kind of clicked out state is called "dissociation".

It’s you’re subconscious so it’s not terrible to be connected to it. That’s why we sleep so we can shut it off and get rest cause it’s always going and gets tiring.

"you are not that chatter" - that is an insightful phrase. I like it!

how did you start meditating, how to learn

@@alexmartin2126 First I did deep relaxations laying down. Then sitting in chair I learned to watch the breath, cool in warm out. As breath slows your mind will follow and become calm, When very quiet drop watching the breath and enjoy but whenever mind babbles again go back to watching breath etc.... its worth learning and good luck

Thank you for this dude!

Tell that to someone with terminal cancer.

@@kimbarsegyan I hope you don’t mean you have cancer, but I believe this video and comment will even be a bit helpful to those with cancer

I thought he said "abs", like as in stomach muscles.

Yeah this clip would be 10 times better if it had ended 5 seconds earlier

What is he is saying resonates with and will further white supremacy. These techniques don’t work for POC, trans, LatinX and other oppressed communities.

@@chamade166 what the fuck are you talking about

@@HardwareG33k talking about racism and social equity…k?

Yep

I am one of does who benefit a lot from him and his app

I have his app as well but I don't get any benefits from using it. I can't meditate.

@@spridle Do you feel you have a firm grasp of what meditation is?

Help along with being dumb?

@@spridle I would offer you haven't meditated long enough. If you've been identified with your mind your entire life, it's going to take as long as it needs to do to eradicate this complex we've been trapped in since birth.

How is it possible that your comments always show up under the most random videos i watch?? Ive been watching your videos for over a year and its crazy how often i see your comments under videos that have nothing to do with programming. Maybe im just on youtube too much :D Keep up the good videos, bye.

@@samfoston4231 It's much more than that hence why meditation teachers exist. If you don't learn how to do it properly you can easily end up at a dead-end, wasting your time.

@@albertbuzek5007 I guess the recommendation algorithm takes videos into account that channels watch that you watch

@@codinginflow yeah. I guess it makes sense that people that watch you and like you have a higher chance of liking the things that you like

I enjoyed that book, but make no mistake, the author John Yates has an incredibly bloated resume. He's definitely not considered a neuroscientist among actual neuroscientists (he played with a couple rat brains), and he's been adulterous, which brings a lot of question to what extent he's actually achieved the goals described in his own book

BAMF and thank you for your service.

Hey please look up kelly starret. The problem with the back is usually tight muscles which prevent the full range of motion from arm legs and the upper spine, which makes the lower back work overtime. Search kelly starret back pain please because he is one of the few that actually fixes the problem. Never go to chiropractors

Dang that’s incredible

Yeah tell that to somebody who’s suffering from an actual illness/disease and not 3 hours of whatever you just described. What you’re saying is true but to a certain extent. You can’t compare back pain to a chronic disease or something undeniably true such as a broken arm or leg.

@@RJTradess Interesting thought but I think we literally can compare those things. No two individuals can make conclusive statements about their experiences of pain in terms of one or the other being greater or deeper than the other, it’s true, because ultimately the available comparison is an intellectual one that can only be shared or communicated conceptually where as the experience itself is personal and can not be shared or communicated as an experience in any way that makes sense or is trustworthy. But as I say the comparison can be made. The only conclusion, however, that can actually be drawn from an acceptance that the experience itself can’t be shared or communicated between individuals is that the conceptual framing of the experience is our only real resource in attempting any control or pushback of the actual experience for the individual. What cannot be concluded is that just because an individual maintains that their pain is as an experience fundamentally greater or deeper than another individuals that it is true either in terms of its face value as an assertion or by extension in terms of the implied inability on the part of the individual who maintains that their pain is in some way fundamentally greater or deeper to apply the conceptual knowledge that has been put forward by those who have made the intellectual comparisons in an attempt to build knowledge bases for those who may wish to access said knowledge as a useful resource in attempting such control or achieving any kind of pushback that would amount to what a reasonable person might accept as a successful managing of that persons pain experience. I understand how tempting it is to reject this reasoning given the pain that people experience that they never find a way to adequately manage. In the first instance it certainly comes across as salt in the wounds for those who have, or have lost, loved ones who experienced great pain to then be told that it could have been potentially easier for them if only they’d have known about and tried this or that approach before or while they were alive. For those that are left behind to consider this it’s maybe just a painful realisation if true rather than any kind of consolation. Secondly it almost comes across as an accusation in those cases where what we think we are being asked to accept is that those individuals just didn’t or aren’t trying hard enough or are somehow not clever enough to take these ideas on board but this is not the case either. The truth is we are all only human with human weaknesses and we live in a world of uncertainty with very little time to come to terms with that and sometimes even where an answer exists to the perceived problem at hand it just isn’t found as a result. 🙏

And so did (for instance) Patanjali before Buddha!

Would you know that if someone didn’t echo it?

Harris isn’t saying he invented this.

Great thing that some of our contemprary thinkers remind us of it😅

​@@JorisWeimaThere is no evidence of Patanjali existed before 5th century AD

Read his chapter on it in his book, "Waking up". It's in the first half and is an even better explanation of why meditation is so great

100%

How?

@@brentwub meditation app

@@fhaf33z same for me too, started last year

Changed you to Mr Hyde? You were always both.

What is he is saying resonates with and will further white supremacy. These techniques don’t work for POC, trans, LatinX and other oppressed communities.

What i dont get is why he puts so much emphasis on Thought. You only think due to emotional reasons. Emotions are the fat and the thoughts are the carbs in many situations. Often times youre scrambling in thought coz your body is trying to sort out why tf its feeling so uneasy. If you were chilled out and focused. Which is the whole point of meditation, youd think less or think much more productively, this is granted you dont have intellectual disabilities or cognitive issues

@@chamade166 we gotta learn the hardest lesson of all. Losing the fear of death. It takes guts to be an oppressed and hated person but you gotta learn to not fear no human. Engage the demon within as so it is outside of you and youll realise they are just as scared as you. Difference is now you know and theyre running around like a headless chicken while you dominant the field

@@pluday4685 True, but often what we call "emotion", say fear, is mostly thoughts combined with a physical sensation, and the sensation is almost a Pavlovian physical response to other thoughts. For instance, you go to speak before a thousand people, and your thoughts are "I can't do this" and your body responds in the automatic way it always has to thinking about public speaking. When you control the thoughts, the emotion dissipates. It goes the other way as well; you can use beta blockers to rid yourself of much of the adrenaline fear response. Without the physical sensation, the thoughts often dissipate quickly. As Cheri Huber has said, the Ego's favorite playground is bodily sensations.

@@chamade166 I don't really see the connection. Why does oppression prevent meditation from working? I would think the opposite; it might be more useful to oppressed communities.

Definitely helps, thanks so much

Stay strong brother 💪🏼

How did it help you? I’m interested in joining in the future, just curious

@@kaushikkam2596 i was dipresed and sucidal for a long time and i started meditation with his app two years ago life has been a lot better ever since …better emotional regulation my relationships with the people i love has imoproved dramaticaly …not saying meditation gave me eveything it gave me the tools to work with …the best decsion i ever made in my life was learning to meditate

Any recommendations for literature on reintegration?

Actually, it's not simply dissociation, it's developing equanimity. I really appreciate the integration piece you followed up within your response, as I feel it is the other "wing" to help someone fly through life. Dissociation seems to imply not being there. Equanimity is to be fully present with what one is feeling and experiencing but without being pulled away by it. It's to see things for what is really happening, without tainting it or colouring it with our own misinterpretation or psychological spin as Sam was mentioning. This leads to what's called insight. And from this more clear viewpoint, we are able to untangle our misinterpretation of situations and arguably be liberated from them which leads to integration and thus healing. The way that you describe it, "the core of most religion" is describing what our thoughts are doing as one of its functions which is categorizing and labelling. But this is merely intellectualizing from an outside point of view without actually delving into the exercise of actual meditation. It's like trying to explain with exact nuance and precision of how to swim. But until you actually take the dive, you'll never know how it feels from an experiential point of view which is the embodiment of wisdom. For anybody who is really interested in learning and embodying what Sam is describing here, I would highly recommend participating in a 10-Day Vipassana course as taught by Goenka. The integration piece for me is to consistently practice and meditate and break our old habits patterns of reacting to our cravings and aversions or put in simpler terms not being confined or a slave to our likes and dislikes.

@@mindfulmagician7550 get a job

Lol, resorting to petty remarks behind a digital identity with apparently no consequences. Pure ignorance. But in reality, the consequences follows you like your shadow, and as long as you continue with this behaviors misery will follow you. Good luck to you man. If the universe somehow conspires for you to learn more about yourself, I hope that you come out of your ignorance.

@@gay4pay882 the fuck is wrong with you?

You have no clue what you're talking about. You just regurgitate some information without having any close encounter with true pain. My grandma had cancer, spread to her liver caused her whole body to shut off. Muscle started to atrophy, fat dissappears. Next thing that happens is nerve damage. EVERYWHERE. My mom and aunt had to move her from one side to another each 15 minutes because my grandma was in so much pain, from just laying down. There was no amount of morphine that can help you accept that pain. Before she lost all her sanity to this pain she told us it's like getting electrocuted non stop. I dare you to think about that. And what mindfulness can do to help. This is a process to fight psychological issues not phisical. No one escapes the gift of pain.

@@smayly1000 There's a nugget of truth in the middle. You brought up an extreme circumstance where the prolonging and rising intensity of the pain is so long and severe, that the mindfulness approach begins to fail under those conditions. This doesn't mean that one can't use a deliberate mentality to manage the pain better in many other, less severe, circumstances. I'll hand it to you tho, the op in this thread came across a bit condescending, though I think it was unintentional.

@@HumanMechanism true I didn't word my statement properly. There is a way to deal with phisical pain trough mindfulness but not all pain. I got a bit triggered by op's comment because I see many people who live in the fairytale that we can control everything with our minds. Which just buggs me to my core... This concept is so dissattached from reality.

@@smayly1000 I'm very sorry to hear about your grandmother. I'm not in any way dismissing pain or how severe pain can be, that may be how it came across as I only wrote a few sentences. I've actually had to deal with constant chronic pain at one point for 2 years, this naturally lead to a host of mental illness. Thankfully my body recovered and I can appreciate a comfortable body again. What I wrote is just summing up what Sam has said, those definitions are correct. I've been fascinated by non duality and meditation for a very long time now and what I've said in my comment I can confirm from my own real time experience. The 'voice in your head' (sense of self) is appearing but it is not what you are. That is the thing that comments on the pain and can make the suffering even worse. The commenting on pain and the raw sensation of pain are two separate things, both of which are being seen (this is what Sam is saying). Looking past the 'voice in your head' leaves you with just the raw pain, which of course can be immense. But for the vast majority of encounters people have with pain day to day, the raw sensation is usually easier to bear than the relentless ruminatation about it. Just trying to help :)

@@ThePageNo1 I mostly disagree with what Sam Harris has to say. Because he views his consciousness as the more dominant part of his brain which is absolutely false. What you say is wishfull thinking. You can't escape the reality of prolonged pain. I will need more information on your chronic pain to give you a comparison. If it's not a prolonged pain but a remainder of some sort that's not the pain we are talking about. We are talking about something that's bugging you nonstop, doesn't need to be excruciating pain but something like a build up stomach is a good example. You cant escape that reality no matter what you think its a constant reminder of your current state of body and its normal. The worst thing you can to your self is give your self hope, that you can recover or feel better with the power of your mind, go seek medical help. I know where you come from as I was once meditating and being mindful. I guess you probably touched a place where you haven't been before and you're very interested in, but that's a false narrative. It's just the self trying to explain to you that your self sufficient which you are not. You're talking about the voice in your head, the moment you start to dissociate with it, your doomed. You're down the rabbit hole of Spirituality->False narratives->Delusions .

what do u mean psychopathy

You judge yourself by an arbitrairy Standard.

@@Bigjuicydumbdumb wym

@@mariorodriguez219 "Feel behind in life" Don't do this. You're 28. You got time. Go for it.

@@Bigjuicydumbdumb thanks man I’m trying

@@mariorodriguez219 There's no need to try to not judge yourself. Just be aware when you judge yourself and when anything else happens. Observe it all like in meditation!

Pretty good take my g

You mean consciousness?

honest question here, if I understand this correctly you’re implying to separate road (conscience) from wheels (thoughts as vehicles) ? Should thoughts and conscience not be interwoven at all times? Oh is it just the negative thoughts that we’re trying to separate from?

@@albrtanomad301 It's about separating your identity from thoughts, before the concept of good or bad even comes into it.

​@@albrtanomad301 No, thoughts & consciousness should not be interwoven at all times. Because consciousness is always there while thoughts change - depending on the day, emotions, location, people we are with etc. Through meditation, what we seek to achieve is to separate all thoughts, whether positive or negative from the underlying consciousness. To see it clearly beneath the thoughts help us appreciate that whatever be the contents of our thoughts the unchanging consciousness will stand us in good stead. Thoughts are like petals on the surface of a pond. Petals are blown by the wind here and there, they decay in a day or two, they are never constant. By choosing to focus on the unchanging pond itself, we see clearly through our daily struggles.

I strongly recommend “Acceptance & commitment therapy”

@@eric7live288 ACT baby! What he said.

Sit quietly for 15 minutes every morning. Spend time appreciating nature every single day. When you feel overwhelmed sit down and practise bringing your attention back to the present moment. Clean up your room and your stuff and your clothes so you are ready for any opportunities that may present themselves today.

"there is nothing to accomplish"

Nice, Mind over matter

What's interesting is that the same effect would occur if you focus your attention on the sensation of pain.

Great comment dude. Much love

Did a teacher recommend the book?

No, my massage therapist!

@@tylersmall8876 Cool! I was just asking because a high school teacher of mine gave me that same book. I thought we might be having a it's a small world moment, haha.

The power of a free mind is easily interrupted by an effort to hold onto it.

ik i just wanted more :(

The title made me think he was going to ask “have you ever tried eating Elk meat or smoking DMT?”

I thought he said 'abs' lol.

This guy never been in a fight.

It's not that we won't ever feel pain, it's that we're trying not to add the mental pain on top of the physical pain. In Buddhism it's called the second arrow. It's not that the first arrow (physical pain) doesn't exist, it's that we're trying to avoid adding another arrow (mental suffering) to the picture. Trying not to suffer with a tooth infection is very hard. That's why it takes a lot of training. Have tried meditating during a tooth infection, not fun. 😂

⁠​⁠@@ShimmerBodyCreamhe often seems to intentionally mixes it up though. Or at least doesn’t make it clear. It’s Important to learn how to not amplify pain mentally if you wanna live happy. But he over promises and is often trying to sell stuff. I do genuinely believe he had good intentions and is not in it for the money. Just wish he would stop the Buddhist apologetics and boosting. And would lean of the meditation. And focus more on practical applied philosophy and ethics. Like animal rights, free will etc. he’s smart though and a great communicator. It’s just cringey and will not age well I think

@@funut2541 I'm with you, I am immediately wary of anyone trying to sell stuff. I'm personally a big fan of Ram Dass, Ajahn Sona, Ajahn Brahm, and Thich Nhat Hanh if you're looking for some non-money oriented practitioners. They aren't necessarily secular (altho none of their religions require belief in a God or anything you don't want to believe)- but they also don't require you to adopt their religion to take home their practices. Pema Chodro also has some great practices. (like her guided Tonglen practice on YT) Jayasara on YT is a Buddhist nun who has just a ton of free guided meditations that include secular/multiple traditions. (like quotes from Einstein for example)

Samaneri Jayasara*(huge free YT channel), Pema Chodron*

Bro facts. When you’re at your lowest is when you get the most motivation💯

I thought the person who could go off topic the worst had existed.. But then Joe Rogan came round

U got games on ur phone

I don’t know what you’re smoking if you think the adults are in charge and we’re righting the ship, but I want some.

@@kaiser_suzi_ haaaaaaa

@@kaiser_suzi_ Why lol?

casually.... like it's something that happens occasionally. Sure I remember spring of 2019 when my buddy and me were building picnic table and he thought my knee was a board.

@@kaiser_suzi_ hahaha such a weird thing to find hilarious

His mom was a comedy writer! In the genes/upbringing :)

Sam Harris is Exhibit A when it comes to having trouble living in the present. He know the theory but he sucks in real life. Sam. Is constantly consumed with rage. Against Trump, against religion,, against Cernovic, recently against Bret Weinstein. That he talks about eliminating psychological pain is really funny!

He did watch the whole thing

I would say though, that there is a difference there. (This is coming from someone who also enjoys being lost in thought.) In those moments we are actually in control of what we are thinking, we are deciding what to think and when to think it, so in a way it is being mindful in that moment. Vs not having control over what goes in and out of your thoughts.

I first saw that in ‘Prometheus’ 😂

whys your stomach hurt

@@slimdilly_ smoking marijuana developed a stomach disease

Or two Arrows

wow best comment lol

@@slimdilly_ “Ahh, you’re finally awake”

mu

B&W in the absolute?

I think you mean B&W in the margin.

Spiritual materialism. Theres nothing wrong with using the intellect to dissect out experience of mysterious states of consciousness.

What a stupid, pretentious comment

@@nnn-pr3vr Oof. You are on to something but this needs to be rewritten.

People only suffer because they think constantly. Suffering is found in thinking. Stop thinking and you stop suffering

It's edited, you fck

@@yoloswag6242 pipe down holo. All I said was what Toe Bogan said about himself- he ain’t that bright. He claimed he’s about as smart as a wise ape. PS damn near all KZfaq content is edited. Be well.

No, its not that mystical. What sam is talking about is far more pragmatic.

@@sethe.2468 Are you NOT the Universe experiencing itself? How could you be ANYTHING ELSE in your most essential form? Especially if the constructed self and it’s thoughts are simply a stream of energy focused into your present moment. Why argue against the obvious? I don’t get this aspect of ‘materialism.’ ‘Matter’ is energy. Energy is not created nor destroyed The energy that is the matter that is you …. has always been part of this Universe. And now here you are experiencing it. I really don’t get what there is to argue against.

@@benevolentconcepts I am talking about what Sam Harris believes and his perspective, not Alan Watts or you. Sam Harris is a proponent of a much more pragmatic view of meditation and its benefits, separated from the cultures who spawned them. Don't believe me? Watch his debate with Deepak Chopra and the idea of "woo woo". Again, whether you are the universe or not makes no difference in this context. OP wrote what Sam meant boils down to "X". It doesn't.

@@sethe.2468 I’m not talking about Alan Watts. I don’t even really care what Sam Harris thinks. I am also a student of meditation AND ‘mysticism’ divorced from the cultures that spawned them. And I don’t think it’s trendy to be an anti-spiritual “because-religion-doesn’t-make-sense-then-all-spirituality-is-irrational” meditator. Op can arrive at whatever conclusion they wish from what Sam says, whether they agree with Sam or not. It’s pretty obvious that Sam has arrived at conclusions from the ‘cultures that spawned’ ‘woo-woo’ that differ from their original meanings, and you accept his arguments and conclusions. I’m not a Deepak Chopra ‘person’ either, so I really don’t care about Sam debating someone as mainstream as Chopra. Sam Harris has to waste SO MUCH TIME rejecting religious ideology that I have yet to hear him make a truly productive point about much of anything …. but then again, I don’t really resonate with him, so I don’t listen to him very much. The only reason I was here is because a friend of mine said they no longer believe in Free Choice because of Sam, and I find it utterly ridiculous to assert that someone who spends so much time arguing and dissecting the way people think about things and then teaching them to CHOOSE to meditate doesn’t believe that they had any part to play in the choice to engage in said arguments or practices 🤷🏽‍♀️ Go ahead - deny your choice to put your finger to keypad and write a clever retort. The pragmatism of realizing that we are all Fractals (self-similar repeating patterns of energy and information with infinite scalability in which part contains whole and whole contains part) of the energy of the universe will become clear in time as more and more individuals awaken to the FACT that BECAUSE we ARE the universe experiencing itself, we also have access to everything the Universe knows about itself. Solutions to all of our ‘problems’ - personally and collectively - will come from more and more of us having this realization and allowing it’s implications to be manifest in our experiences. And that’s all I have to say. I’m glad Sam teaches meditation because that is so key 🔑

@@benevolentconcepts I have nothing to say to that rambling statement except my intital point still stands.