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🗓️ 10 June 2025
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In this episode, I share the audio recording of a Dharma talk I gave during one of our Sunday Zoom calls. The topic is Right View, the first step on the Buddhist Eightfold Path. Inspired by the book Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, I explore the nature of truth and how we relate to it in our everyday lives.
I talk about three distinct types of truth—objective, subjective, and intersubjective—and how understanding these can help us develop a more skillful and compassionate view of reality. Using analogies like traffic lights, tinted glasses, and even Tetris blocks, I examine how Right View isn’t about having the “correct” opinion, but about recognizing our perspectives and holding them with humility and curiosity.
This episode is an invitation to look more closely at how we see the world—and how a clearer view can help reduce suffering for ourselves and others.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode |
0:14.7 | number 205. I am your host, Noah Rochetta. I want to remind you, as always, that you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism |
0:22.6 | to be a Buddhist. |
0:23.6 | You can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are. |
0:27.9 | Today's episode is the audio of a Dharma talk that I gave during one of our Sunday Zoom calls. |
0:35.4 | These are weekly calls that I do with podcast listeners and supporters with |
0:39.4 | members of the Secular Buddhism podcast online community. And the audio is on the topic of |
0:48.0 | right view. So without further ado, let's jump right into the topic for this podcast episode. |
0:57.8 | This week I wanted to talk about the topic of Right View, which is the first in the eightfold path. |
1:07.2 | But what inspired this is actually a book that I just started reading this week. |
1:11.8 | I'm only on the first chapter, but this is the book Nexus by Noah Yuval Harari. |
1:18.1 | And he wrote Sapiens was one of the first book. |
1:21.8 | Well, that's the first book of his that I read. |
1:23.8 | It might be his first book. |
1:25.5 | That was a very impactful book that talks about |
1:28.3 | stories, the kind of what got humanity from where we were to where we are, our ability to have |
1:35.3 | shared stories. And then he wrote another book. I don't really recall getting too far into that one. |
1:42.3 | And then this one, which I've started and so far I'm |
1:46.0 | really enjoying, this one goes more into the topic of information and where we're headed |
1:52.4 | with our information systems and AI and stuff like that. But it got me thinking on this topic |
1:59.2 | of right view and what does it mean to see clearly. |
2:05.6 | I think when we encounter this topic of right view being the first step on the eightfold path, sometimes we interpret it through the lens of having the correct view or the correct opinion |
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