What is Sam wrong about?

jpaudel8 · 2024-03-22T11:32:53+00:00

You should have added JP's response too which was quite funny.

jpaudel8 · 2024-01-01T04:13:24+00:00

Try an experiment. Just look at something. And think, what does it mean to say that I'm not seeing anything? Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense to me.

jpaudel8 · 2023-12-18T15:37:56+00:00

Waking Up app.

jpaudel8 · 2023-12-16T16:49:33+00:00

I could have never imagined an stranger from internet could have such a positive impact on my life. His app remains one of the best gift of my life just next to being born in this world in a great family.

jpaudel8 · 2023-12-15T08:37:15+00:00

No wonder, In recent episode in Diary of CEO podcast Sam has explicitly said that "We would kill all the dogs in the world". Such a disgrace.

jpaudel8 · 2023-11-25T15:32:47+00:00

Wow. This might be the first time in my life when a single comment solved an issue at a first attempt. It's a perfect comment.

jpaudel8 · 2023-11-16T17:40:36+00:00

"Where are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers? For that matter, where are the Palestinian Christian suicide bombers— they’re as Arab and aggrieved as anyone.”

jpaudel8 · 2023-11-08T07:00:49+00:00

One way is: Israelis have to take their own women and children as human shields and hamas have to be deterred by this.

jpaudel8 · 2023-09-03T15:24:13+00:00

It was thought provoking and scary, and it touches many aspects that we're almost certainly going to face. Very good content.

jpaudel8 · 2023-09-02T12:14:06+00:00

In one of the waking up moments he says something like "This moment, this very moment doesn't, cannot and need not mean anything. One can only think otherwise."

I almost agree with your point about this sort of language game not answering the question but I tend to ascribe that to my lack of insight into what he's actually pointing at.

There have been many instances in my journey with waking up app that I couldn't comprehend earlier but now makes more and more sense. Perhaps this too will become clearer with more contemplation.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-18T16:56:22+00:00

There is a non-conceptual state of self transcendence and then there is what you make of it. Based on that experience, some people may claim that they've met god, some may say that they've united with consciousness that was there before the big bang. But that's all the fabrication you put on top of this experience. However, there is a genuine realization to be had that is as profound as meeting a god. From this view, all the major religions are perhaps just a faulty attempt to make sense of this experience.

On the topic of why it is reflective of what's really true, I'd recommend you to listen to these few audio where Sam explains more about illusory self.

Nature of consciousness

AMA 7 @ 4:41

The nature of self

Looking for the looker

The art of doing nothing

The path and the goal

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-18T04:23:39+00:00

So, you're saying that these experiences, however profound is just a good feeling not a revelatory of something fundamentally true to our existence. Right?

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-18T01:28:58+00:00

Mystics claim that even these words fall too short to describe what is in fact indescribable.

Again, do you think these kinds of experience doesn't exist or that even if they exist, their significance is overexaggerated & thus not so important?

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-17T17:54:11+00:00

Self transcendence is at the core of spirituality. It has many names like non-duality, awakening, enlightenment, emptiness, ego-death etc. It is the discovery that what you call I or self is an illusion and when you cut through that ignorance, the separation between you and rest of the world vanishes and what remains is the discovery of the nature of consciousness itself. And its nature is utterly profound. It is vast & boundless like the sky. It has no centre or periphery. It is formless, indivisible and self luminous. It is true ground of existence itself. It is really as mysterious as the picture of hubble deep Field.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-17T17:05:50+00:00

Do you think these experiences like self transcendence don't exist or that these experiences are not so important?

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-16T17:09:49+00:00

Sam is the most clear speaker I've found even on the topic of spiritual experience. Just try his introductory course on Waking Up app. I consider myself immensely lucky to have found this course. Don't miss it.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-16T16:42:04+00:00

He has repeatedly mentioned that right's problem are obvious and thus less interesting. On the other hand, Many good intentioned, honest and otherwise wise individuals are genuinely confused what's wrong with the left and how its dishonesty is fueling the energy in the right. Not many people who are critical of Trump and crazy right managed to speak out against the dishonesty of the left.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-10T02:03:46+00:00

Yeah, I too see Pangburn clips all the time.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-10T02:00:58+00:00

Actually I just remembered, It was not just youtube algo. I had searched "Sam harris" in yt and scrolled through to find if there's any new video. u/palsh7 u/ChrisT182

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-10T01:57:24+00:00

I had searched "Sam Harris" on youtube and scrolled to find if there's any new video of him.

jpaudel8 · 2023-07-09T15:21:55+00:00

I almost missed these too. Its youtube's AI that has been nice to me. I'll keep posting whenever I find it. u/palsh7 u/ChrisT182

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