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

This is episode number 129.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about the Halt Method.

Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

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

Before jumping into the co-on and the topic I have for this podcast episode, I wanted

to clarify something based on an email I received.

I want to say thank you to Garrett for emailing me asking for a better clarification around

this idea of becoming a better whatever we already are.

And specifically, there was this communication about is it contradiction with what we're

practicing in Buddhism when we talk about wanting to be a better whatever we already are

as a form of craving because we're also saying that the moment we want life to be other

than how it is, suffering arises.

So how do those two ideas work together?

Because wanting to be other than how I am is already the problem that creates suffering.

So how does this idea of becoming a better whatever we already are?

So I wanted to clarify this just a little bit.

For me, when I use this quote, the concept of being a better whatever I already am, you

have to remember in the Buddhist concept or way of thinking we're already eliminating

the duality of good and bad right and wrong.

So I think it's more appropriate to say to become a more skillful whatever you already

are rather than a better because when we say better, it does make you think good, better

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