Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 24.

I am your host Noah Rosheta, and today I'm talking about how the journey is the goal.

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topics, and teachings presented for a secular-minded audience. The Dalai Lama has said to not try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist,

use it to be a better whatever you already are.

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Now let's jump into this week's topic. I want you to imagine for a minute your favorite

destination, maybe

somewhere that you've wanted to visit, but you haven't visited yet.

So maybe it's Europe or Asia or

some exotic location pictured in your mind.

And imagine you finally get to go there, and you land at the airport, and the first thing you need to do is jump on a train to get to

wherever it is that you're going, maybe the hotel or something.

And imagine that you're sitting on the train, and the train gets going, and you're looking down at the map, or

looking up at the map, some trains have been posted there on the side of the wall, and

you're paying attention to the various stops along the way.

And you're focused on the stop where you need to get off.

So as you pay attention to each of these stops with every stop, you look, you look out and see

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