Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 120.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about unconditional joy.

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.

So before jumping into the topic for this week on Conditional Joy, I want to talk about the Zen Kowan from last week,

which actually conveniently ties in to the topic that I've selected to talk about today.

And I guess before jumping into that I want to say I've been a little MIA the last couple of weeks as you may have noticed.

I hadn't had the chance to upload a new podcast episode. I've been tied up with several things that have come up.

I knew January was going to be a very busy month for me because I'm training a class of new pair motor students.

And I'm doing it in a new location and I've been out in a remote place and staying in a cabin.

And I thought I would have the chance to record out there but every night unfortunately there are parties or loud things going on.

And I'm just going to be able to do a new podcast episode and I'm going to be able to do a new podcast episode.

So I haven't had the chance. I've had all the intention of sticking with my weekly podcast uploading.

But I just haven't had the chance to do it.

And then there was a week where I was battling with figuring out a new allergic reaction that sprung out of nowhere.

I couldn't figure out what that was and slowly whittled down the list until thinking it was nuts and various things.

And I think I finally had it solved. I have it solved. It was the shampoo that I was using.

But anyway, long story short, all these things have delayed my chances to record a podcast episode.

And I finally have the chance today but to be able to find the place that was quiet.

Once again, I am sitting in my car and I'm recording the podcast episode.

So I'm excited to finally be able to start talking about the topic that I had picked many weeks ago.

So just as a heads up, if in the future several weeks go by and I haven't had the chance to upload,

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