171 - How To Feel Whole And Complete

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Something whole is comprised of ALL its undiminished parts or elements. We are a combination of our body and mind (hardware and software). The key to feeling whole is to understand and embrace all of the parts that make us who we are.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode number 171.
0:08.4	I am your host Noah Rosheda and today I'm going to talk about how to feel whole and complete.
0:17.6	As always keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.
0:22.6	You can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are.
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1:00.9	So for today's topic how to feel whole and complete. I want to start out by asking why do we feel
1:10.0	incomplete? Why do we feel like there's always something missing, something that's just out of
1:15.4	reach and life however good it is will be even better when we can finally reach that one thing.
1:23.2	The new job, the raise in our pay, getting our companion or partner or spouse to finally change
1:33.9	this one character trait about them or whatever it is right but there's always something that's
1:40.8	just out of reach. So we're always reaching and striving to take life how it is and make it
1:48.7	cross that threshold to where now I'm going to feel whole and complete when this or that happens.
1:56.1	So almost like we've been conditioned to believe that our starting point is one that is incomplete.
2:03.3	We don't start out as whole, we start out as incomplete and then you go around and you gather
2:09.5	all these pieces and you're always looking for that one final missing piece and I don't know exactly
2:15.7	where or when or how that conditioning starts but I think you can see it in our society from
2:24.1	multiple different angles. This need to feel rescued or saved. The need to be made a whole
2:33.1	marketing always pushes this message right that here's this thing that once you finally have this
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