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

This is episode number 160, I am your host Noah Rosheta, and today I'm going to share

some thoughts regarding gratitude and patience.

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 from Buddhism to simply be a better whatever you already

are.

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On the heels of Thanksgiving, a holiday that was celebrated here in the United States

earlier this week, I thought I would share some thoughts regarding gratitude and specifically

gratitude from the Buddhist perspective.

We live in a culture that tends to feel gratitude for only the pleasant things in our lives.

The Buddhist approach is different.

The Buddhist approach is to feel gratitude for all things that happen in life, even the

unpleasant ones.

Jack Cornfield, in an interview with the Huffington Post, said, in certain temples that I've been

to, there's actually a prayer that you make asking for difficulties.

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