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

This is episode number 136.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to share some thoughts regarding the

mountains and rivers Sutra.

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

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In the last podcast episode I shared a poem called Only This and this is by Rick You and

the poem goes like this.

First, you heat the water, then you make the tea, then you drink it properly.

That is all you need to know.

That's the poem.

I wanted to share some of the thoughts that were discussed in the online community forum

on Patreon just to expand a little bit on the idea that's shared in this poem.

The first one comes from Morella who says, The poem makes me think about how difficult it

is to relax in the present moment and just be or do one thing at a time.

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