Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 75.

I am your host Noah Rasheda and today I'm doing something a little different.

I'm sharing the audio of an interview I had on another podcast called Everyday Buddhism.

So I want to tell you a little bit about this before playing the audio for you of that

interview from that podcast.

So my friend Wendy is the host of the Everyday Buddhism Podcast and she is a fellow graduate

of the Lay Ministry program that I did at Bright Dawn, the two-year ministry program.

So she graduated a year or two before I did and facilitated in some of the classes that

I was in when my class or group was going through it.

So she reached out to me and started a podcast but reached out to me and invited me to

be interviewed for her podcast and I was really excited to do that because I know that based

on the training and the studying that we've done, I know that her approach is very similar

to mine when it comes to discussing Buddhism and that's the everyday aspect of it.

Her podcast I think is very appropriately titled Everyday Buddhism in the sense that

a lot of this stuff that we talk about and that we learn about and that we study about

in Buddhism can at times seem like way over the head esoteric mumbo jumbo and really what

we're trying to get down to is whether or not these teachings work, can these actually

improve our day to day lives and I believe they absolutely can.

So does she and that's why her approach to this podcast and her approach to Buddhism

is appropriately called Everyday Buddhism.

It's taking how do we apply this in everyday life?

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