21 - Perfection and the problem with comparing

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Society & Culture, Meditation, Secular, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We are continually making comparisons, this vs that, good vs bad, here vs there, etc...In this episode, I will discuss the topic of perfection and the problems we run into when we compare things. The understanding of non-duality permeates through all Buddhist teachings. In order to properly understand perfection, we must not compare to anything else.

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0:00.0	Hello you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast and this is episode number 21.
0:05.8	I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm talking about perfection.
0:21.2	Welcome back to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, a weekly podcast that focuses on Buddhist concepts,
0:27.1	topics and teachings presented for a secular minded audience.
0:31.4	The Dalai Lama has said, do not try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist,
0:35.9	use it to be a better whatever you already are. Please keep that in mind as you listen to this
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0:59.0	Now let's jump into this week's topic. So this week I wanted to discuss the topic of perfection.
1:06.8	Several months ago I had some friends visiting and we decided to go for a hike up in the mountains
1:12.6	around Park City. And on this occasion we were hiking up a trail and at one point as the trail
1:20.8	was curving around, we went through a little grove of trees. And I turned around and I noticed one
1:26.7	of the trees in the grove had this interesting bend to it. The trunk went straight up and then it
1:33.7	just kind of shot out to the right and then back to the left and then straight up again, almost like a
1:39.4	horseshoe shape right in the middle of the trunk. Maybe it's maybe a foot or a foot and a half
1:46.4	between where it started to bend and then where it went back. And it was just a really interesting
1:52.0	bend in the tree. And it looked so unique among all the other trees because it was such an interesting
1:59.2	find. So I stopped and I took a picture of it and then later on as I was looking at the picture,
2:07.0	it occurred to me that it was interesting that this tree that was crooked among all the other
2:14.2	normal straight trees caught my attention as a beautiful thing. And the fact that it was so unique
2:22.1	made it stand out. And I thought that was interesting because as I thought about this more,
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