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

This is episode number 107.

I am your host, Noah Rochetta.

And today I'm going to share a few more Zen Coans and talk about what they mean for me.

As always, keep in mind you don't need to use what you learned from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

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

Earlier this week I had an experience with one of our neighbors.

So we live in Mexico now and we live in a gated community.

And inside of our little complex of homes, there are about 30 homes here.

We're lucky that there are a lot of kids and they ride their bikes and it's been great for us to have our kids outside plain and making friends.

And learning Spanish through plain and interacting with the other kids.

Well one of the kids was riding by on his bicycle and his steering wheel or the handlebars were loose.

So I asked him if he wanted me to adjust them or to tighten them.

And he said yes I would love that.

So he came over and there in our little garage kind of area.

I took out my tools and I have a lot of tools that I brought down with me that are tools that I use specifically for maintaining my paramotor.

So I took out some of the tools from this little bag.

I adjusted his steering wheel or I'm sorry his handlebars.

And he said thank you very much.

And then over the course of the next 10 to 15 minutes he kept coming back and asking me to adjust his the pegs to tighten the chain

to adjust the brakes to tweak little things on his bike.

And I kept adjusting everything for him. I adjusted the height of the seat.

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