At risk of sounding arrogant, it isn't embarrassing at all. If you've at least tried to meditate you would appreciate what he is saying. But it isn't really a comfortable or easy thing to do. I'm surprised he would block you to be honest.
Is it really that surprising? He told Harris that one of his life’s biggest projects is embarrassing. It’s hard to produce an insult more cutting than that.
I understand what Sam is saying.
Sam is talking about “consciousness and its contents”, and that practicing mindfulness (or taking psychedelics, as he has said in the past) reveals to us pure awareness and a state of “no self”, which is the “true nature of reality”. (1/4)