Meditation and The Sense of Self

FrOM A LECTURE SERIES BY PROFESSOR Ronald Siegel, Ph.D.

In this video lecture, Professor Ronald D. Siegel grapples with one of the most fundamental and challenging insights that come from meditation practice. With reference to both cognitive science and traditional Buddhist thought, observe how the human mind creates the illusory sense of a “separate” self, and how this conception of separateness is itself the cause of suffering.

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