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

This is episode number 165.

I am your host, Noah Rosheta, and today I'm going to talk about the process of unlearning.

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

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Alan Watts used to say that a scholar tries to learn something every day, but a student

of Buddhism tries to unlearn something every day.

I mentioned this in the last podcast episode, and I've had this thought on my mind regarding

this quote, what does it mean to unlearn?

And I thought it would be fun to share some of my thoughts around this topic.

If you look up the definition of learning, learning is the acquisition of knowledge or

skills through experience, study, or by being taught.

And I like to think of unlearning defined as the surrender of unskilledful knowledge or

unskilledful habits through experience, study, or being taught.

So in this sense, why would it be beneficial to surrender knowledge?

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