92 - Your Inner Compass

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Society & Culture, Meditation, Secular, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Buddhist teachings are always pointing inward. When we put these teachings into practice, we are learning to look inside ourselves and to understand ourselves a little bit better than before. In this episode, I will discuss an experience I had last week where I ended up having to trust my own inner compass over the advice of my GPS.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.
0:05.2	This is episode number 92. I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm talking about your inner compass.
0:20.8	Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. You can use
0:26.2	this information to be a better whatever you already are. In this podcast episode I wanted to share
0:34.7	an experience I had last week while traveling. This concept of the inner compass I think fits really
0:40.9	well with Buddhism in general. So I was traveling last week attending a fly-in which is a get-together
0:48.7	of pilots who want to fly together. I had already spent one week in Arizona training a new
0:57.2	class or a new group of paramotor pilots. So I had five new students and I was teaching them
1:03.6	how to fly and right after that event I went with my twin brother and we met up at this fly-in
1:10.0	south of Maricopa in Arizona. And this the location where we were meeting to fly was way out
1:16.3	in the middle of the desert. It was like 20 miles of driving through dirt roads to arrive at this
1:22.9	airport where we were training. So I noticed I had this experience while we were driving out there.
1:29.2	I had my GPS navigating for me and I had been using the GPS every day prior to going to this fly-in
1:38.0	just to get from the Airbnb that I had rented to the airport where I was training these students.
1:43.7	And it's eight days of training and on about the fourth or fifth day it occurred to me that
1:49.5	every morning I would still I would do the same thing. I would punch in the airport to the Airbnb
1:54.8	just to help navigate my way out of the residential area and onto the road and to make sure I
2:00.5	wouldn't miss the turn to arrive at the airport. And I thought how interesting that after four days
2:05.9	I still not really know my way I just trust the GPS to tell me every day how to get home and how to
2:12.0	get to the airport. And so I kind of had this in my mind and I thought I wonder why you know the
2:20.8	more time that I spend depending on something like the GPS the less skilled I am at trusting my
2:29.5	own navigational skills and my own instinct. And it occurred to me that in some ways my ability
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