Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 103.

I am your host, Noah Rochetta.

And today I'm talking about making time for nothing.

Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

You can use what you learn to be a better whatever you already are.

So I wanted to talk a little bit today about this concept of making time for nothing.

I can't remember where I first heard that quote or not that quote but that expression.

Perhaps it was the chapter of a book I read or it was included somewhere in a quote.

But I remember thinking how interesting to make time for nothing.

Later on I came across a book by Tiktok Han Buddhism at bedtime.

I think that's the book.

In one of the books that I read to my kids at night at the very beginning,

it has a section about nothingness.

And Tiktok Han asks this question.

He says, is nothing something?

And he goes on to say that yes, nothing is something.

Because the moment I say nothing,

or that I talk to you about the concept of nothingness,

something pops into your mind.

It's an idea, nothingness as the absence of something.

But in that sense, nothing is something.

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