Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 159.

I am your host, Noah Rochetta. And today I'm going to talk about when things fall apart.

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So the topic I had in mind today is when things fall apart.

Now this is the title of a book, Pema Shodran, a fantastic Buddhist teacher.

She talks about this notion of things falling apart and she has a book and the title is when things fall apart.

So I highly recommend you check that out if this is a topic that you're interested in.

I think a really good description of the nature of reality is the understanding that things come together and things fall apart.

Pema Shodran talks about this in her book, but I think at the core of the Buddha's awakening was this deep realization of this truth that things come together and that things fall apart.

And that is the nature of reality.

When we learn to see through the lens of impermanence and through the lens of interdependence, I think we start to see and understand this deep truth that things are because other things are and things aren't going to remain.

Things that are will no longer be and things that aren't will come into existence.

And again, it's the essence of seeing that things come together and things fall apart and all things inter are.

And I think that is a very skillful, wise way of seeing reality.

Now I've mentioned in a previous podcast, one of the meditative techniques that I've adopted into my daily practice for meditation is what I like to call dish washing meditation.

And this process started several years ago when I realized I really don't like having to do the dishes.

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