127 - Becoming Nobody

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Society & Culture, Meditation, Secular, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"Good concepts are like a gold chain, bad concepts are like an iron chain, they all equally bind you in the end." The concept we have about who we are is binding. What if instead of trying to become somebody, we practiced becoming nobody. In this podcast episode, I will discuss the idea of becoming nobody.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.
0:04.6	This is episode number 127. I am your host Noah Rasheda and today I'm going to talk about
0:11.9	becoming nobody. Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.
0:21.2	You can use what you learn to be a better whatever you already are.
0:25.7	Before jumping into the topic for this podcast episode, let's talk about the Zen
0:32.4	Cohen I shared in the last podcast episode. When you can do nothing, what can you do?
0:39.6	I want to share a couple of thoughts from some group members in the Patreon community.
0:45.3	Just as a refresher, the Patreon community is a group of people who are supporting the podcast
0:51.6	and we discuss the Zen Cohen's there every week. We talk about mindfulness concepts and topics and
0:59.6	of course the podcast episodes and a few other things. I like to share some of the perspectives and
1:06.6	ideas that come from the community, from the group on the Zen Cohen. I want to start out with that.
1:12.8	Sean says, open quote, don't just do something, stand there. If you can do nothing, do nothing.
1:22.5	I like the thought that Sean shares, don't just do something, stand there, standing there is
1:30.7	doing something and if you can't do something, then do nothing. Those are both really good thoughts.
1:37.8	They evoke this question that Tick-N-T-Hon often asks, he says, is nothing something?
1:45.4	In this case, in all cases, nothing is something. We have an idea in our mind of what nothing is.
1:51.3	So to do that thing is to do something. That's a fun way to think of it and to explore this concept.
1:58.2	Joey from the community says, open quote, when we get to a point where we cannot react to the
2:04.7	stimuli around us and do nothing, all possible actions are now open to us. The ability to do nothing
2:12.2	is not in action. Plus quote, again, this is sharing that same concept, that same idea that
2:19.8	by doing nothing, we actually are doing something and that the ability to do nothing is not in action.
2:26.5	I think sometimes we kind of have this concept in our mind of what nothing means and we think
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