212 - The War Within

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Noah reflects on the heaviness of living in a world filled with violence, hatred, and suffering. From school shootings to war and personal experiences of pain, he explores the Buddhist teaching of the three poisons: ignorance, greed, and hatred, and how they manifest both globally and within our own hearts.

Through stories, analogies, and practical practices, Noah reminds us that peace is not created from the top down but from the inside out. By transforming our own inner war with wisdom, gratitude, and loving-kindness, we ripple peace outward into our families, communities, and ultimately the world.

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to “end the war within” and how small choices can make a big difference, this episode offers clarity, compassion, and concrete tools to begin cultivating peace, one moment, one choice, one heart at a time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the secular Buddhism podcast, where we explore Buddhist teachings and ideas in a way that's
0:16.9	practical, down to earth, and relevant for everyday life.
0:29.2	I am your host, Noah Roshetta, and today, this is episode 212, The War Within, Finding Peace, and a World of Violence.
0:32.0	As always, remember, you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.
0:36.8	You can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are.
0:42.6	This past week, I found myself sitting with the news, feeling this familiar heaviness in my
0:49.6	chest.
0:50.6	Again, another school shooting, ongoing war, hatred manifesting as violence in our world.
0:58.4	And then this morning I came across a news article of a recent arrest of an adult attempting
1:04.7	to sexually assault a 13-year-old child.
1:08.7	And as I was reading through the story, I realized that the perpetrator
1:12.4	is a sibling of one of my closest friends. And man, my heart just sank. As I sat there,
1:19.6	reading the news, thinking of my own kids, my daughter, he was the same age as that girl
1:26.5	of the story. My kids are the same ages as the
1:31.0	kids that were killed in the school shooting and thinking about the pain that those
1:37.5	poor parents must be going through at the loss of their children. And as I sat there thinking of all the heartache and suffering that we see in the world,
1:47.0	I was feeling something between anger and despair,
1:52.6	asking myself this same question that I've asked so many times,
1:56.4	what will it ever take for the world to know peace?
2:00.4	Maybe you've felt this too, the sense of
2:02.6	helplessness when you see the violence, the hatred, the seemingly endless cycle of harm that
2:08.6	we tend to inflict on each other. And you might ask yourself, what can we do? What can possibly be
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