The Reality of Your Life is Always NOW - Sam Harris | How to Live and Enjoy the Present Moment

[@luke31ish]

I occasionally search Sam's name on KZbin fearing that I might miss a talk that's not on his app works. His logic and clarity changed the way I think. I try to be a mini Sam Harris in my life.

[@HMZ047]

Every single one of your words describes me right now

[@anshulkathait8943]

Try not to be like him or anyone else. We already conditioned with so much second hand knowledge that we don't even realize that the real knowledge is to get rid of all that we have learned so far. That being said, I also appreciate his humor, intelligence , with and substance with which he makes such a compulsive argument about life..he might be right but still he is just a voice which driving him to enunciate some rational looking voice. It will make more sense if you dive deep into your own enquiry from where your innate voice emanates.. hope someday you , me or even sam would understand the plight of this compulsive talking that does nothing but feed ego towards further more distraction...!!

[@clivespendlove5993]

and me!@@HMZ047

[@clivespendlove5993]

Would you like to support your assertions with some facts, evidence, rational argument? @@anshulkathait8943

[@doublekingjohn7812]

​@@anshulkathait8943I don't know much about him, I use to listen to his talks. What becomes of him?

[@daisyl2629]

Sam is incredible. Listening to his discourse with Jordan Peterson was so refreshing and eye opening. I’ve never seen Peterson get angry but Sam managed to tear down his arguments with compassion, clarity and deep humility. He is the singular voice of reason and wisdom in a world hurtling towards annihilation.

[@Anonymous-jk4ik]

I consider Sam Greatest life teacher and intellectual of our time.

[@jlc012]

that makes two of us

[@irrelevant2235]

@@jlc012 That makes three of us.

[@hdluktv3593]

@@irrelevant2235 four

[@briank.9456]

5

[@HElSENBERG]

as long as he stays out of politics maybe

[@stavrosktorides]

Sam is a treasure for humanity!

[@brianjoyce9040]

Sam has a way of boiling life down to its basics, thoughtfully. Making the most of the importance, is each of us doing the best we can in the moments we live engaged.

[@MG-vk2jr]

My Guru - Sam thank you 🙏 for everything you have given to the world

[@sudhirpatel7620]

After you come out of a 3 month coma and 8 months of rehab your brain is hardwire to always live in the NOW even as you imagine away. Death becomes the ultimate reality.

[@Benderrr111]

Is that your experience?

[@clivespendlove5993]

I treasure Sam because he makes so much sense and that's SO helpful to me!

[@khashraf123]

The "now" needs a purpose, and that purpose is influenced by future. Without purpose, your now will lead u to more misery. Purpose - should be your peace not just accumulating wealth. Live minimalistic, less wordly possessions, help more, be kind. This will fix your now and future both.

[@sudhirpatel7620]

My NOW is homelessness and terror that without hope and delusion I am 'forever' homeless and terrified, in a state of hopelessness.

[@Justfor2day10]

I’ve just stumbled across this vide and saw your comment. How are you now?

[@chesterbikley3483]

Homeless and watching youtube 😂

[@ericahevaun9924]

This man is Source Intellect teaching through him.. he does such a beautiful job of explaining some hard truths!!

[@vergineal-tawil3165]

Thank you, l appreciated this video!

[@ramakanthbaldawa4391]

Incredible ❤

[@jaimeescalante9764]

Thanks a lot to Sam Harris

[@PositivelyMe]

How many people are struggling in this world?… i have to create my own happiness. Or rather i get to. We all have this great opportunity in life to follow our dreams and make our best life come true. It definitely is a struggle and feelings are hard to deal with.

[@hamza-fg7zk]

They tell you, "You are not free; you are constrained by the chemistry of your brain. You are just a neural machine." Yet, some of them advise you to embrace life, overcome challenges, strengthen your personality, and build psychological resilience. Isn't that a huge contradiction? If my brain is the one controlling all this, then why give me advice, since neural determinism is supposedly responsible for achieving these outcomes? However, we often lean toward feeling enthusiasm and strength as a result of applying such ideas in our minds, which clearly indicates the existence-and power-of human will. But we tend to forget to logically analyze the contradiction in such claims, like those made by Sam Harris. He says, "You are just a machine," implying that there is no "you" in reality, and yet he tells you to follow certain advice. Isn't my application of such advice proof of my will to change my perspective and thoughts about matters? Isn't my interaction with life’s events with happiness, strength, and joy evidence of my free will? Or does merely recalling something involuntarily mean the absence of free will? That’s a shallow philosophical absurdity. The speed at which we make daily decisions and analyze situations within our minds makes people like Harris imagine that our brains are solely responsible for everything. But in reality, you are the one exercising your freedom and will through your brain. Reflect on this: the speed of analyzing scenarios when you want to make a decision or the rapid transition from one idea to another within your mind does not indicate the absence of "you." Instead, it reflects the precision of our minds. It is you, acting with will, who makes those transitions. Of course, you will exercise your freedom in what you experience and learn. So, don’t ask, "Why did that image come to my mind and not another?" and conclude, "It wasn’t me who chose." That’s nonsense. 4o window.__oai_logHTML?window.__oai_logHTML():window.__oai_SSR_HTML=window.__oai_SSR_HTML||Date.now();requestAnimationFrame((function(){window.__oai_logTTI?window.__oai_logTTI():window.__oai_SSR_TTI=window.__oai_SSR_TTI||Date.now()}))

[@AhmedAli-yk8xw]

Very impressive

[@marcw2]

This is Wonderful...! Gives you a true perspective on life... Thank You Very Much... 😊 -Marc

[@sudhirpatel7620]

Nature goes on forever for everyone and everything to return as everyone and everything an infinite number of times through evolutionary processes. 🌌

[@DougKoper]

Sad commentary of my thoughts that possesses me.

[@joeyartone9378]

I love it

[@eliosp3160]

In a world of ever increasing, global, crazy, "now is the time to be great. FYI, it is always now"

[@nikn2804]

4:46

[@rayrous8229]

Sam Harris has been a great influence on me. But I feel that I should point this out. "Now is the only thing that's real." Charles Manson.

[@angeljackson9353]

I love this truly thank you

[@Kareem-Ahmed]

I know that the reality of life is now, but these words cannot mend a person's mind (or soul) who has lost his/her beloved one. We had a life together NOW and we were enjoying our "now", as if it would go on forever. How am I supposed to live and "enjoy" the new nows, by pretending that the past doesn't matter? Even the concept of "now" is a delusion, and the human mind doesn't live in the real-time, scientifically speaking! There are no real answers to our deepest existential questions.

[@Shubham-by3sh]

One day in your life gonna come a moment when you have really forgotten someone departed. That person becomes a stranger to you It happens to everyone in 10 year or 20 but it does. Maybe because you have a new beloved to care for. Or a new purpose . So think about it , was all that suffering " for the beloved" or for you ? Isn't your beloved like a drug ,you hook on to for some time and when taken away you need some other drug just to be hooked on to something ?Why not realise our imperfections ourselves and do what nature is doing to us anyway , ourselves and consciously ?

[@Kareem-Ahmed]

@@Shubham-by3sh Well, it's complicated! I realize the human imperfection and weaknesses, but there are things that you can never forget in you life. Imagine you killed somebody accidentally with your car. If you're a sensitive type you may become depressed, but these things are very hard to forget even for a "normal" person. I think, loving a person is similar in a positive way. I used not to believe in what I called "BS" or true love, but when it happens I cannot pretend to have forgotten about it even after a long time. Maybe I'm just too emotional or something, but love is a very important thing to me. (And I don't necessarily mean "love" as in movies.) For example, my love for my family members and close friends never fades out. Do you want to try hard to forget suffering? nice try, do that! Become a Buddhist and focus on yourself. But remember that all human life contains pain and suffering, and "happiness" is just an illusion.

[@alintampa]

The world is not supposed to be a paradise. you have to make your own paradise. you have to determine what a paradise means to you

[@EricWicks8675309]

Anybody know when/where this was recorded?

[@HypeFifty5]

Global atheist convention 2012 - Sam Harris the meaning of death. In Australia

[@timrichardson8666]

How should we live

[@timrichardson8666]

What should we live for

[@lucasa.6440]

Please don’t put music to this stuff. Defeats the whole purpose

[@jayf8308]

I didn't know Sam played piano. lol

[@Lion718]

Sam has been really influenced by Buddhist thought lately..

[@TheSubpremeState]

No he studied from the philosophy that Buddhism came from. He recommends sri nisargadatta. The ultimate sceptic

[@Hearttouchingnasheed-r3z]

Not believing in God is not the solution at all.

[@xenofonstratigos1744]

That's why the smart ones of us we don't give birth to kids, to save them from pain and suffering and death. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@Mikael-jt1hk]

The kids have to carry that weight for the good of humanity. Do you think its better that humans go extinct? are you actually that stupid?

[@PauloBerni699]

If we “climbed out of the trees” why do we still have our down trodden brethren still out there living in them?

[@mayankpapnai3682]

Good question. I wonder no one asked that before

[@evanacey1414]

Easy… The same way that we now have multiple different languages that were derived from Latin (French, English, Spanish, Italian), but there was never a point at which a Latin speaking mother gave birth to a child who spoke Spanish.

[@evanacey1414]

Your question demonstrates your profound ignorance of the way evolution works..

[@ploriamadson7898]

As a lifelong atheist I found this lecture to be mediocre almost re hashing Buddhism life is a struggle in a secular way The Power of Now it's an emergency oh please Sammy no it's not but it can be a drudgery making your 100 years not enough being too much for some even at 30 or 70

[@Peepppinpppper]

Can you even understand a coherent thought?

[@marciestoddard730]

Obviously living in the present moment doesn't feel good to some. That's OK, however I disagree with what youve said here.