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

This is episode number 124. I am your host Noah Rochetta.

And today I'm going to talk about dealing with people that you don't like.

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

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

So today's podcast episode comes from the request of an email I received.

Someone asking me if I would be willing to do an episode where I discuss the idea or the

concept or give tips on how do we deal with people that we don't like.

And I thought that would be a good idea, especially during this time where

you know, the way social media works. We're all dealing with people that we don't like.

And perhaps if it's not people that we don't like, it's ideas that we don't like.

But it seems to be a prevalent thing. And I'm trying to shift a little bit of the concepts

of the podcast towards a little bit more of a how does all this apply in everyday day-to-day

scenario. So this is my approach at this specific topic. How do these concepts and ideas that we

learn about in Buddhism apply to everyday scenarios like dealing with people that we don't like?

So I thought that would be a fun way to start off this podcast episode.

So first of all, though, I want to go into the Zen Kuan that I left in the last podcast

episode. And this is where a monk asked Zouzu to teach him. And Zouzu asked,

have you eaten your meal? The monk replied, yes, I have. Then go wash your bowl, said Zouzu.

At that moment, the monk was enlightened. Now this Kuan, to me,

does a really good job of presenting the simple and profound way that Zen Buddhism tries to

simplify the whole point of what we're practicing and what we're doing. I want to share a couple

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