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

number 207. 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

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

The last two discussions were centered around the eightfold path, the first two parts of the eightfold path with right view, right intention. And I mentioned how those two

fall under the category of wisdom. You kind of have these split in three categories, the

wisdom, ethical conduct, and mental discipline. And I thought, well, we've talked about two of them.

Might as well talk about some of the others.

But I did want to pause before going on to the next one

and just talk about wisdom for a second.

As I was thinking about these in the context of

wisdom, ethical conduct, and discipline, it got me thinking

a little bit about wisdom in general, and I wanted to share some thoughts around the notion

of wisdom from my perspective.

And this was prompted by a passage that I came across in a book called Turning Confusion

into Clarity by Mingyre Rinpoche.

And in there, in the passage, he says, many people come to the Dharma because they are

in some emotional crisis or experience chronic mental suffering

and goes on to say that makes sense, but they may want their guru to solve all their

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