824 Suffering vs. Satisfaction with Sam Harris, Part 2

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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THERE IS JUST CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS CONTENTS. When you’re dreaming, you don’t know that you’re asleep. You’re caught up in the dream. That’s how most of us go through life. We’re unaware that we’re not actually experiencing the things we are feeling. But you can break the spell in a moment with meditation. When you become present, you’re no longer asleep. It’s time to wake up. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I continue my conversation on meditation and mindfulness with one of the greatest thinkers of our time: Sam Harris. Sam Harris is a New York Times best-selling author, podcast host, and creator of the Waking Up Course. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam shares that when he experiences emotions like anger to sadness, he becomes interested in the emotion. He observes his body’s reaction and tries to distance himself from the feelings. So get ready to learn how mindfulness can end suffering on Episode 824. Some Questions I Ask: How do you eliminate worry? (49:00) How do we stay satisfied in an unsatisfied world? (1:07:00) When do you feel the most loved? (1:15:00) What’s the one lesson you want to teach your kids? (1:21:00) What’s the question you wish you had the answer to? (1:31:00) What are you most proud of? (1:40:00) In This Episode You Will Learn: The landmarks for mindfulness (53:00) Why the feeling of self is an illusion (54:00) The hardest part of meditation (01:11:00) What death has meant in Sam’s life (01:37:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the show notes, video, and more at http://lewishowes.com/824 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0	This is episode number 824, part 2 with New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris.
0:08.0	Welcome to the School of Greatness.
0:12.0	My name is Louis Howes, a former pro athlete, turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
0:16.0	In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
0:24.0	Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
0:30.0	My friend, thank you for being here. And if you listen to part 1, then you are excited about this episode because, man, he went off.
0:42.0	Sam went off on a lot of different things, talking about eliminating worry, how people feel like passengers in their own bodies, and how life is not about seeking happiness.
0:51.0	He also spoke about when he feels the most loved sympathetic joy and how that gives us more reasons to be happy.
0:59.0	Sam talked about his mother and the lessons he learned from her and how death has influenced how he lives his life today.
1:07.0	In this episode we cover the importance of identifying when you're lost in thought and when you're present.
1:15.0	So how do we identify that? The truth of emptiness and how it can free you from your experiences.
1:21.0	How recognizing consciousness is the antidote to always seeking satisfaction, real love as the antithesis of envy, and how feeling sympathetic joy for others can bring happiness.
1:36.0	And the benefit of facing death as a reality, I've been talking about this more, facing your own death can actually bring you more joy.
1:44.0	Very excited about this. Again, if this is your first time being here, you don't know who Sam Harris is. He's a New York Times bestselling author, five time New York Times bestselling author.
1:54.0	He's been featured all over the place and topics including neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence and rationality.
2:04.0	His work has been published in 20 different languages, been discussed in New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, all over the world.
2:11.0	He's studied and practiced meditation for more than 30 years with many Tibetan Indian Burmese and Western meditation experts and he's created the Waking Up course for anyone who wants to learn to meditate in a modern scientific context.
2:29.0	How do we move on from the story or how do you do it? Do you live with a lot of worry each day or are you so good now and just saying this doesn't matter.
2:40.0	This is in the past or I'm concerned about something that's not going to happen potentially in the future. So let me get back to present.
2:48.0	How do you not worry?
2:50.0	Everything for me is at my level of practice. I've done a lot of meditation practice but there's apparently much more to do in my case.
2:58.0	Because you still worry.
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