Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, and this is episode number 47.

I am your host, Noah Rosheta, and today I'm talking about Buddhism and Christianity.

In this podcast episode, I want to talk a bit about Buddhism and Christianity

with regards to similarities and differences.

When I teach workshops about Buddhism, it's almost inevitable that someone will come up to me after and ask me

about what the major differences or similarities are between these two traditions.

This is a question that really can't be answered accurately in that setting or in that moment,

because there are a lot of things to address.

So I've decided to address this question in this specific podcast episode,

and I hope this will help to clarify a few things.

This is a topic I'm excited to address because I myself live in a community that's very Christian,

and with a family dynamic where we have a mixed faith marriage and a mixed faith family.

So this is a dynamic that I think is important to understand for anyone interested in following the Buddhist path

or the contemplative path to understand how that works in comparison with Christianity.

So before I jump into that, I do want to clarify three important things,

three notes or clarifications about this topic.

The first one is this is not a presentation about which tradition is right or which one is better,

because remember the quote I share all the time by the Dalai Lama,

do not try to use what you learned from Buddhism to be a Buddhist, use it to be a better whatever you already are.

This is especially relevant in this podcast episode.

We're talking about paths and in what ways are these paths similar or perhaps different,

but we're not saying which path is right, which one is better, which one will get you there faster.

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