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

This is episode number 155.

I am your host Noah Rochetta.

Today I'm going to talk about a story called The First Meditation.

As always keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

You can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are.

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So today's podcast episode it's been a little while since I've done a podcast episode.

These tend to be getting more and more spaced out and I don't want to have such big spaces

between the episodes.

My original intention was to do one of these every week and I want to go back to that

intention but I think the format is going to change a little bit rather than focusing on

a longer topic I'm just going to start doing shorter episodes but more frequent.

So we have an online community for podcast supporters and we do a live call every Sunday

at noon, Mountain Standard Time and it's on Zoom so it's a video conference call and

the I think the benefit of that format is that it's a group discussion centered around

a topic and I'll present whatever the topic is for that week but it kind of acts as a

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