Welcome to Buddhist solutions for life's problems.

On this show, we examine how people apply their nature and Buddhist practice

to the complex challenges of being human.

I'm Jihihjali, a journalist and practitioner of SGI Nichurin Buddhism,

and today we're talking about finding your dream career. Before we start, if you're a new

listener, you can learn more about the podcast on episode one. If you like what you hear, we would really appreciate if you could rate and review the show on whatever

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So today's problem is figuring out what to do with your life and then making it

happen against all odds.

Oh, this? It's a dictionary. That's DIC, T, oh, you can look up the rest in a dictionary.

That's Ike Uphomaru,, a New York City base comedian who has navigated just

this conundrum in a unique, powerful way using his Buddhist practice.

It's filled with, in the words of Hamlet words, words, words.

Hi, I'm Ike, and I invite you to join me on a journey through words. There'll be big words, some small words, and some

right there in the middle. There'll be good words, bad words, and words of smaller size still. But through it all you can trust

me to be there with you step by step, letter by letter, syllable by syllable. So come, let's take a dance with old lady English at the language

ball. I've got two tickets. And there's one just for you, to words with Ike.

We're going to hear his story today,

which is about how to gain the courage to go for your dreams and another from a woman named Tanya about

what's possible when you do so.

I'll give you the thesis up front on this one and we'll unpack it as we go.

Fighting for your dreams is hard, possibly harder than ever,

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