Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, and this is episode number 43.

I am your host, Noah Rosheta, and today I'm talking about no cows, no problems.

In this short episode, I want to talk about a story that's often shared about a farmer

who lost his cows.

And to me, this is a story about attachment to our possessions.

It's a story about the suffering that arises out of our attachment to our possessions,

and it's relevant because we all have cows.

And I want to talk about the story, I want to talk about the moral of the story, and

what we can learn from the story when we apply it to our daily lives.

But before I jump into that, quick update on the podcast format.

What I've been thinking about incorporating into the podcast is to do an occasional

Q&A podcast episode, so questions and answers.

As you may know, several of you have reached out to me by email in the past.

And quite often I get questions about clarification on certain topics, or how does that topic

apply to this situation, things of that nature.

So I thought it would be cool to occasionally, maybe once a month, or just every so often,

dedicate an entire podcast episode to questions that I received from you listeners.

There are two ways to send me the questions.

You can email me the questions like you have in the past, knowasecularbudism.com, in which

case I would just read the question in my own voice and then give you an answer in the

podcast episode.

But what I thought would be cool, if you're willing, you could call in with your question

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