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

This is episode number 133.

I'm your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about 5 Daily Life Guidelines.

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 just be a better whatever you already are.

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teachings and concepts of Buddhism.

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Before jumping into the topic for today's podcast episode I want to talk about the Zen

Cohen that I shared in the last podcast episode.

So the Cohen says when the many are reduced to one so what is the one reduced?

I want to share some of the thoughts that come from some of the community members on

Patreon regarding this Cohen.

So the first one comes from Lauren who says to me this week's Cohen made me think of

the interdependent nature of reality.

I also thought about the often used car analogy if you are taking a car apart piece by

piece when does it stop becoming a car?

The many car parts are often reduced to the concept of a car in our minds but the reality

is that each component is unique and interdependent with all things.

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