128 - No Going Back

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

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

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A key Buddhist principle is a recognition that things are always changing. Life is transient. When we have the feeling of wanting things to return back to normal, we need to remember that normal was always relative, there is no going back.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.
0:04.9	This is episode number 128.
0:07.7	I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about no going back, some thoughts
0:14.5	about impermanence.
0:20.0	Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism.
0:23.2	To be a Buddhist you can use this to learn to be a better whatever you already are.
0:31.0	The Koan I shared in the last podcast episode goes like this.
0:36.0	A monk asked Kegon, how does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?
0:42.4	Kegon replied, a broken mirror never reflects again.
0:46.7	Fallen flowers never go back to the old branches.
0:51.3	So let's start out talking about this Koan and this concept a little bit.
0:55.5	I've done before I want to share some of the thoughts that come from the Patreon group
1:02.4	where we discuss these Koads and we discuss the ideas and the concepts from the podcast.
1:09.5	This first thought comes from David who says, I really like these Koads that you've chosen
1:15.7	so far and then he goes on to say, in my view, enlightenment is an understanding of how
1:21.3	the world truly works.
1:23.9	That one has been able to embody in their daily life.
1:26.9	This understanding allows one to see beyond appearances and to act skillfully in consequence.
1:33.7	Because an enlightened person cannot simply undo this understanding of the world, Kegon
1:39.5	compares it to trying to put back together a broken mirror or fallen flowers.
1:46.3	Close quote.
1:47.3	And I like what David shares here.
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