Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, and this is episode number 20.

I am your host Noah Rasheda, and today I'm talking about the question of good and evil.

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Now let's jump into this week's topic.

On the topic of good and evil, I wanted to start out by saying in light of recent events,

but the more I thought about this, the more I realized that it's not just recent events,

events for years and years now.

If you look at the news, you'll see we have had catastrophes and attacks and all sorts

of man-made problems from terrorist attacks happen almost on a daily basis in countries

like Iraq and in Syria.

And then of course we had the shooting here in Orlando a couple weeks ago.

And there are always things in the news that remind us of the evils of the world.

So I wanted to talk about this topic of good and evil in the Buddhist sense, specifically

with how we are to view or cope with the fact that atrocious things are committed almost

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