Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode

number 206. I am your host, Noah Rusjeda. I want to remind you, as always, that you don't need to use

what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. You can use what you learn to simply be a better

whatever you already are. Today's episode is the audio of a Dharma talk that I gave during one of

our Sunday Zoom calls. These are weekly calls that I do with podcast listeners and supporters

with members of the Secular Buddhism podcast online community. And the audio is on the topic of

right intention. So without further ado, let's jump right into the topic for this podcast episode.

Last week, the talk was around the topic of right view, and I wanted to continue the discussion a little bit,

moving on to the next part of the topic

that fits in really well with right view, which would be right intention.

And this, again, these ideas are coming from the eight-fold path.

So for those of you who might not be aware, in some of the most basic teachings of

Buddhism, we have the four noble truths, which is the teachings around the understanding of suffering

and the causes of suffering, the path to the cessation of suffering, and part of that path is the

eightfold path, which can be broken into eight different topics. And even those are usually

split into three kind of general categories, the first of which is wisdom. So the

aspects of the path that pertain to trying to cultivate wisdom are having

right view, which is what we talked about last week, and having right intention. So this is

almost like a part two of the overall topic of trying to develop wisdom.

So that's where I thought I would go with with sharing thoughts today.

Last week in the discussion around View, we talked about the different types of truths,

the objective truths, subjective truths, intersubjective truths.

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