Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 80.

I am your host Noah Rosheta, and today I'm talking about the idea of fairness in life.

Keep in mind the Dalai Lama's advice, do not use what you learn from Buddhism.

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

As we jump into this topic, life is not fair.

I want you to join me in this little thought experiment.

Just imagine for a moment that you're driving along the highway in your car.

And suddenly you hear a pop and you have a flat tire.

So you pull over, you get out of the car, you're looking at the flat tire,

you know, trying to decide what you're going to do next.

And you look up and you realize a really nice car pulls over to assist you.

You can just envision whatever a nice car is to you.

So this car pulls over, somebody gets out of the car, they come over, they look at your

flat tire and they say, I feel really bad for you.

Here I'll tell you what, I'm going to give you $100 and hopefully this will help you to have

a better day. Just imagine for a moment how that would feel.

As the recipient of this cash, $100, there you are.

How do you feel for this person? How do you feel about having received what you just did?

In fact, let's make it $1,000, just to make it really much more of a big deal.

I guess $100 is a big deal, but let's just say it's $1,000.

And you're probably quite shocked and surprised in this person,

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