Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
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Channel: Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
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Length: 56min 31sec (3391 seconds)
Published: Sat Jun 02 2012
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Mr. Harris has a beautiful way of taking atheism, seemingly bland of optimism, and going "now what?". Whenever you begin to reject dogmatic, cult-like, and non-logical views that make absolutely no sense many people often reach a point of vulnerability.
Without religion, which I had been indoctrinated into at a young age, I was left with an empty void. I had no way of coping without the dogmatic beliefs that kept me going day by day. Unfortunately for the rational thinker, it is very hard to "science" your way into happiness. Reason is unfortunately, at least among most rational people, viewed as being something that is emotionless and mathematical.
Mr. Harris unpacks and presents Buddhism to a secular audience with an astounding level of charisma and intellect. I am sure that because of him, just as I have learned through the mind of eastern thinker, some of his audience has been given a different perspective: reality is much better than we originally thought.
No doubt Sam Harris is a stealth dharma teacher. He has them meditating at 31:00. He admits it at 51:00. Great talk on all counts!
Corrected the time. thx archer!
Skillful means. Nice to watch, thanks for posting.
I don't know why people are downvoting this post.
This was a great lecture by Sam Harris.
They've all been converted. Suckers.
meditation is not a theist or atheist thing. it's about connecting to yourself.
This is the most oddly optimistic presentation of atheism I've encountered, made even stranger by the lack of optimism with which Mr.Harris presents it.
Also, as a side note, I'm not gay but that is one handsome man.
Great presentation - the last five minutes of Q&A is excellent as well, so stick around for it. I like to hear Sam talk about the present moment - reminds me of the work by Tolle and thetadprinciple.com
I wonder if this is sort of thing that contributes to the influx of those "I wanna call myself Buddhist but I only want to accept parts of Buddhism" posts that have been so common lately.