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

This is episode number 77.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I am talking about the art of embracing rebellion

and how that relates to mindful living.

Keep in mind the Dalai Lama's advice to not use what you learned from Buddhism to be

a Buddhist, use it to be a better whatever you already are.

So before jumping into this topic, what do I mean with regards to embracing rebellion?

What is rebellion?

What is a rebel?

I want to clarify these things just a bit before jumping into this.

I think of rebellion as the act of disrupting the established order.

Now in the sense of mindfulness, it's like changing up the way things have been to

exploring whether or not there's a way that things can be better.

So in this sense, the rebel is able to look at a situation and say, yeah, this is how

things have always been.

But what if we did things differently?

What if we were able to change things up?

And people like the Buddha, for example, was a rebel in his time.

He questioned the established order of how things were.

He questioned the caste system where one person ranks up here and another one is way down

there to the point where they're untouchable.

He questioned the way things were.

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