Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 76. I am your host Noah Rochetta.

And today I'm talking about patience, patience with ourselves, others, and life.

As always keep in mind the Dalai Lama's advice. Do not use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Use it to be better whatever you already are.

I want to share a quick note before jumping into the topic. And that's this question of who is mindfulness for.

I recently returned from teaching mindfulness workshop in a corporate setting in Canada.

And one of the regular podcast listener, John, shout out to you, John, if you're listening to this episode.

Reach out to me and ultimately arranged it so that I had the opportunity to go teach mindfulness workshop at the company where he works in Toronto and Canada.

And it was a really neat experience to be able to go out there and to share these ideas and concepts in a setting that pertains to a corporate setting.

And ultimately my favorite part of the whole thing was just meeting John in general meeting him and his family meeting him in person and kind of developing that friendship and realizing, you know, we were sitting on the back patio furniture visiting one of the days after the workshop.

And it was just fun to think of every single event that has taken place in my life and in his life that led to that moment to be their sitting like we were friends like we've known each other, you know, this whole time it was just a really neat experience.

And I love moments like that opportunities like that to be able to interact with somebody to be able to have as John would say to have worlds collide is a really cool experience.

But anyway, during that week in Toronto, it's always interesting to be able to teach mindfulness to people who sign up for a mindfulness workshop is one thing because everyone who's there is wanting to learn these concepts.

That's why they're there. But when you teach it in another setting like in a corporate setting where it's presented as a maybe one of multiple options during the workshop.

You may just sign up because it was the, I don't know, could have been the least boring of the options presented to you.

And sure enough during this workshop there were people who were very fascinated, fascinated with the topic.

And there were others who were in the workshop who were just kind of there probably thinking, what is all this stuff and what is this, why does this any of this matter to me.

And at one point in one of the workshops I brought this up and I wanted to highlight it here, which is the fact that who is mindfulness for.

It's not for everyone. That's the simple truth.

I share it because I gain a significant amount of joy and contentment from my practice, from mindfulness practice, and others do too.

And when I share it and I share these concepts, a lot of people benefit from it.

But it should go without saying that none of this is ever being preached as, hey, you need this. You need mindfulness in your life.

Some people do, but this isn't something that you can compel onto someone, the practice of being mindful.

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