145 - The Quest For Answers

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

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

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In our search for answers to life's big questions, what if the question is actually more important than the answer? In this episode, I will talk about the quest for answers and how it may be more beneficial to focus on the quest for understanding the question.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode
0:05.9	number 145. I am your host Noah Rosheta and today I'm going to talk about the
0:12.2	quest for answers. Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from
0:20.6	Buddhism to be a Buddhist. You can use what you learn to be a better whatever
0:24.8	you already are. If you're interested in learning more about Buddhism, check out my
0:30.2	book No Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners available on Amazon or start out with
0:35.8	the first five episodes of this podcast. You can find those five episodes
0:40.4	easily by visiting SecularBudism.com and clicking on the start here link. If
0:46.6	you're looking for a community to practice with and to interact with, consider
0:50.7	joining our online community. You can find this by visiting SecularBudism.com and
0:56.0	clicking on the link to join our community. In this podcast episode I wanted to
1:04.9	talk about the concept of the quest for searching for answers. What drew me to
1:12.4	Buddhism initially is the fact that Buddhism will readily acknowledge or accept
1:21.4	the fact that there are no answers to a lot of life's questions. In fact, just to
1:29.0	give you a little bit of backstory here, it was roughly in 2012. I was going
1:35.8	through an existential crisis, so to speak. The religion of my upbringing wasn't
1:43.4	making sense to me. I felt as though the rug had been pulled out from under my
1:48.1	feet and I went into searching mode. I wanted to find the answers to the
1:53.8	questions I was wrestling with. These are the big existential questions. Who am I?
1:58.6	Why am I here? What happens when we die? Which is the true path or the right
2:05.4	way? Things of that nature. I was wrestling with these questions. While I was in
2:10.9	this searching mode, I remember listening to an audio lecture series on the
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