logo
episode-header-image
Oct 2014
50m 51s

#4 — The Path and the Goal

SAM HARRIS
About this episode

Sam Harris speaks with Joseph Goldstein about the practice of meditation.

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.

Up next
Oct 30
#500 — The Playing Animal
Sam Harris speaks with Jimmy Carr about comedy, culture, and the state of the West. They discuss Carr's new book on the craft of joke writing, why comedy should be taught, the ethics of crowd work, AI as a new god, cancel culture, attention and meditation, psychedelics, political ... Show More
27m 35s
Oct 20
#499 — The Birth of AGI
Sam Harris speaks with Kevin Roose about the race to build artificial general intelligence. They discuss Roose's book The AGI Chronicles, the scaling laws behind AI's rapid progress, Dario Amodei's "big blob of compute" memo, the birth of reasoning models, Roose's encounter with ... Show More
20m 52s
Oct 14
#498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More
In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss Alex Gibney's documentary on Elon Musk, Dara Horn's insights into antisemitism, the Democrats' Hasan Piker problem, Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani, the Pentagon's plan to ... Show More
22m 54s
Recommended Episodes
Jan 2021
"Sam Harris"
<p>The gang takes a journey through the mind of Sam Harris. Sam is a neuroscientist and philosopher who writes and lectures around the world. He is also a teacher of meditation through his app &quot;Waking Up,&quot; as well as host of his podcast &quot;Making Sense.&quot; Make s ... Show More
47m 40s
Feb 2022
224. Questioning Sam Harris
As an alternative for those who would rather listen ad-free, sign up for a premium subscription to receive the following: *All JBP Podcast episodes ad-free *Monthly Ask-Me-Anything episodes (and the ability to ask questions) *Presale access to events *Premium, detailed show notes ... Show More
1h 50m
Mar 2021
Awakening The Mind with Sam Harris [S2 Ep.7]
A special thank you to Ground News for supporting this week's episode. Download the Ground News app for free: https://check.ground.news/GroundNewsAppcwc and see the full story, for every story. Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Sam Harri ... Show More
1h 29m