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

This is episode number 210. 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 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 I gave during one of our Sunday

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

supporters, members of the Secular Buddhism podcast online community. And I wanted to share the audio

of the topic. The topic is right action, one of the aspects of the eightfold path. And I've been going through each of these

aspects of the eightfold path, one per week for the last several weeks. And this is the

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

episode.

The last several weeks we've been talking about different aspects of the eightfold path, right view, right intent, right speech.

Today I want to talk about right action, which is the fourth step on the on the eightfold path.

So moving into the realm of action itself, this is a big one. This involves how we engage with the world around us through our actions.

So last week, as you know, I was on this paragliding trip.

And one of the days that we were flying, the wind conditions were pretty strong.

And someone came to the hill, to the launch site, as we call it, where we normally fly, and started asking questions that made me realize right away, this person wasn't a local,

this was someone who had probably never been to this site before.

And I could tell that his confidence might have been a little bit greater than his situational awareness.

And based on the questions he was asking where we normally take off and because the conditions

were strong that day, I knew that he might not fully understand what he was about to get himself

into. So I warned him about a couple of things from that particular lodge site that

if you launch from here, make sure you take off and go to the left, gain altitude, then cross to the

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