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

This is episode number 82.

I am your host Noah Rasheda.

And today I'm talking about something we all deal with, have dealt with, or will deal

with at some point, and most likely many times throughout our lives.

That is, the dissatisfaction we deal with in life.

Before I jump into that, 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.

So with that in mind, I want to jump into this topic.

It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, how much you have, or don't have.

The reality is that as human beings, we deal with this dissatisfaction in life.

The fundamental unsatisfactoryness and stress of ordinary life.

And if Buddhism were to be summarized into one key teaching, that teaching would be the

teaching of the nature of suffering and the cessation of suffering.

This is what we know as the four noble truths.

This teaching is bound in every school of Buddhism.

It kind of serves as the core or foundational teaching of Buddhism.

And I wanted to explore this concept a little bit.

So over this episode and perhaps the next podcast episode, I want to address or I guess revisit

these topics.

I talked about this in the first five episodes when I started the podcast, but that's been

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