Why to Meditate | Dr. Sam Harris #shorts
00:00:00.000 | Many people think meditation is about changing the contents of consciousness.
00:00:04.260 | There's some contents you want to get rid of, like anxiety,
00:00:07.600 | other contents you want to encourage, like calm and unconditional love,
00:00:12.800 | or some other classically pleasant pro-social emotion.
00:00:16.100 | And that's all fine, that's all possible.
00:00:19.560 | But the real wisdom of, you know, the 2,000-year-old wisdom of meditation
00:00:26.280 | that really is the, you know, the chewy center of the tootsie pop,
00:00:29.780 | is a recognition of what consciousness itself is always already like,
00:00:35.240 | regardless of the contents and the changes in contents.