Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast and this is episode number 13.

I am your host Noah Rasheda and today I'm talking about freedom.

Welcome to the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This podcast is produced every week

where I cover philosophical topics within Buddhism and secular humanism.

Remember, episodes 1 through 5 serve as a basic introduction to secular Buddhism and general

Buddhist concepts. So if you're new to the podcast, I definitely recommend listening to the first

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write a review or give it a rating and iTunes. And now let's jump into this week's topic.

I'm really excited to be talking about freedom today, specifically freedom in the Buddhist

understanding from the Buddhist worldview. Buddhism's often referred to as the path of liberation

or the path of freedom. But what exactly is this freedom that's being talked about? Freedom.

Freedom is not an absolute thing, it's a relative thing, right? Freedom is generally freedom from

or freedom too. So in this sense, what we're talking about in the path of freedom, we're

obtaining freedom, it's relative to freedom from conceptual constraints and freedom too act or be

a certain way. So I want to jump into this and really talk about this. But first, imagine a prison

or someone who's been in jail years and years and they're finally going to be set free.

So once that person is out of their out of the prison, their freedom is freedom from the

constraints of the cell that they were in or the constraints of the overall prison walls that

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