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#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos

2025/4/14
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Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Sam Harris shares his experience evacuating his home during the LA fires, emphasizing the role of meditation in maintaining equanimity amidst chaos and impermanence. He contrasts the challenges of dealing with a major crisis versus minor daily annoyances, highlighting the importance of mindfulness in navigating both.
  • Evacuation during LA fires
  • Importance of meditation in stressful situations
  • Impermanence and its impact
  • Mindfulness as a tool for handling both major and minor life stressors

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Dan Harris interviews Sam Harris for Dan’s podcast, 10% Happier. They discuss how meditation helped Sam after evacuating his home during the LA fires, why Sam owns a gun, the ethics of violence, how to feel compassion for your political opponents, why it doesn’t make sense to “hate” anyone, free will and determinism, psychedelics, the importance of training your mind, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe).

  Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up) app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.