130 - Three Approaches for Doubt and Mistrust

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

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

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In Buddhism, doubt is beneficial because it is the first step in weakening our wrong views. The wonderful thing about doubt is that it can propel us in the direction of more skillful views. There is a strong emphasis in Buddhism to avoid “believing in” Buddhist teachings, instead, we are encouraged to evaluate them and to understand them and ultimately, to test them against our own experience.Koan Discussed: One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and called out, “Help me up! Help me up!” A monk came and lay down beside him. Chao-chou got up and went away.Koan Shared: What is the sound of one hand clapping?Book Mentioned: “Mind in Tibetan Buddhism” by Lati Rinbochay. Available at: https://amzn.to/3ezRfZa

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode number 130.
0:07.6	I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about using doubt and mistrust and how
0:15.1	essential these things are on the Buddhist path. As always keep in mind you don't need to use what
0:25.6	you learned from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. You can use what you learned to be better whatever you
0:31.3	already are. Quick announcement. I'm excited to announce that I will now have two additional perks
0:40.0	for podcast supporters on the Patreon community who are looking for more live interactions on a weekly
0:46.6	basis. As the community continues to grow I want to offer value to podcast supporters beyond what
0:54.2	you get from just listening to the podcast. So I have two new options that I'm going to start doing
0:59.9	every week now. The first one is using a platform called Crowdcast. I want to offer live Q&A and AMA
1:08.4	which is ask me anything sessions. When I first started learning about Buddhism I really wished I had
1:15.7	access to a teacher or a mentor or someone who could help me navigate my way through all of the
1:22.6	concepts, the teachings and the practices. I had a lot of questions but I had to go searching for
1:28.6	everything on my own and I know that finding a Buddhist center or a teacher is simply not an option
1:36.2	for everyone based on where you live or how much time you have and I wanted to make myself available
1:43.0	every Sunday for a live Q&A session where as podcast listeners and supporters you can
1:48.4	pick my brain about anything related to Buddhism or related to the topics and the podcast or really
1:54.8	anything at all. So who is this for? This is for anyone who is wanting to learn more about Buddhism,
2:01.6	Buddhist teachings, concepts, practices and who wants to work with a teacher to learn more.
2:07.9	So this is something I'm going to be doing every Sunday from now on and then the second thing is
2:13.6	similar but this is using Zoom as you know Zoom is kind of the big rage right now. Zoom allows us to
2:20.8	have live group discussions and interactions. So the second component to this is the sense of community.
2:27.2	Community is an important part of the Buddhist path and having someone to talk to is extremely
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