Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast and this is episode number 23.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm talking about non-duality and the illusion

of free will.

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Now let's jump into this week's topic.

This week I wanted to talk a little bit about the topic of non-duality.

I've addressed this in the past, but I wanted to get a little bit more clear about some

of the implications of the understanding of non-duality when applied to normal day-to-day

living.

We live in a society and in a time in which we have been so conditioned to see the world

in the lens of duality.

Duality is this versus that, right versus wrong, winning versus losing, good versus bad.

These are all examples of dualistic understanding, and our society is very dualistic in its

way of looking at and interpreting the world.

This is very evident, even now, in an election year, you can look at the way that the supporter

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