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

This is episode 167.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about the Buddhist teaching of aimlessness.

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.

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So the Buddhist teaching of the three doors of liberation these three doors are formlessness,

signlessness and aimlessness and in this episode I want to talk about the third one specifically

aimlessness but just as a quick recap formlessness the first one also talked about as emptiness or

interdependence. This is the understanding of non-self or the realization that there is no

permanent thing. All things have causes and conditions or parts that make it what it is.

The expression this is because that is this is the understanding of the interdependent nature of

things and the analogy that I use often when I talk about this is that you can picture a car

and if you were to take that car and disassemble it into all of its parts you wouldn't be able to go

and pick which one of those parts is the car because there is no car without all of its parts. You

may have wheels steering wheel engine you know the parts that make the car but none of those are

the car it's all of it together that makes the car and the implication of this understanding is that

there is no such thing as a car that exists independent of its parts and this is a very powerful

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