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

This is episode number 131.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about the truth of unsatisfactoriness.

As always keep in mind you don't need to use what you learned from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

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

Furthermore if you are new to the podcast listening perhaps for the first time or you've jumped

in on these podcast episodes recently I want to remind you that episodes 1 through 5 have

a summary of the basics of Buddhism and you can find these by scrolling all the way back

to the original first 5 or you can visit SecularBudism.com and click on Start Here.

So another request I've received quite regularly is a request for suggestions for reading material

in books.

If you're interested in learning more about these concepts and ideas feel free to visit

SecularBudism.com forward slash books and there you will see my recommended books that

I've read and that I wholeheartedly recommend for anyone interested in exploring more about

Buddhism or about any of these general topics and concepts that I discuss in the podcast.

So quick update on my own life I recently as you may have noticed I didn't record a podcast

episode last week because I've been on the road. Many of you know that I moved to Mexico for a year

with my family to help my kids learn to speak Spanish and to identify with the culture since

that's where I'm from. But in light of the recent worldwide events and the potential social unrest

and economic changes that are happening all over the world including for me much of my work related

to online advertising which I can do remotely has dried up. So I had to make a decision and rather

than waiting till June to move home we decided last week that we should go ahead and make the move.

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