Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, and this is episode number 50.

I am your host Noah Rochetta, and today I'm talking about creating moments of awareness.

Today marks a fun milestone in the podcast. This happens to be episode number 50,

and as of today the podcast has officially been downloaded or listened to over one million times.

So the podcast now has listeners in over 50 countries. The top five countries are the US,

United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany, and it keeps going down the list.

And the 50th country is Kenya with over 400 downloads. So how cool is that?

I've been receiving countless emails of support and feedback from listeners from all over the world,

and I'm so grateful to each and every one of you for listening, for supporting,

and just for being a part of this journey, and being a part of this milestone with me.

So thank you, thank you, thank you. Today I want to talk about the practice of creating moments of

awareness. And here's the thing about mindfulness. These amazing moments of clarity, moments where you

you glimpse the awe-inspiring nature of reality as it is, they're always there, and it's just a

matter of us becoming aware of what this moment actually is. So how can we shift our perspective?

How can we see or experience more of these moments of awareness in our normal day-to-day lives?

Well, there's a technique that I've been using that I would like to share with you,

where you pause and you ask yourself three questions. The questions are one, where am I?

Two, what am I doing? And three, what did it take for this moment to arise? In other words,

what people or processes were involved with allowing this moment to exist just the way that it is.

Now, I'll discuss that in a minute, but before getting into those questions,

a couple of reminders. First, remember that all Ilamas quote, where he says,

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

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