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

This is episode number 170. I am your host Noah Rochetta.

And today I'm going to talk about the five remembrances.

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use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are. If you are interested in learning

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to members of the of the Patreon community. So to the topic that I wanted to discuss today,

I wanted to share some thoughts regarding the five remembrances. I first recorded a podcast

episode in 2019 around this topic and that was episode number 108 and the title of that episode

was important things to think about often. So you can revisit that one if you want, but this is

a revisit of the topic of the five remembrances. So it's been a while since I've recorded a podcast.

I've been busy with life and travel and just things that I have to do for work and for

you know, being a dad and a husband and all the other things that you do in life.

So yeah, I think it's been over a month now since I recorded a podcast episode. I just returned

from a trip I was able to go for work to Europe and then to North Africa and had the opportunity

to do some flying there. So really neat trip, really neat experience and one of the benefits of being

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