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

This is episode number 173.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to share some thoughts around the topic

of unsatisfactoryness.

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.

So imagine that you suddenly wake up in a world where you don't recognize anything or

anyone.

Everything is new, all new sights and sounds that you've never experienced before and everything

that you look at is foreign and just completely new.

At first you look around and you're just trying to figure things out, figure yourself

out, getting comfortable with just being there, the fact that you are in this whole new

place.

Imagine you don't have any of your memories, you don't understand the languages being

spoken.

Literally everything is entirely brand new.

Once you kind of orient yourself and you realize that your basic needs are being met

and at some point you'll start to think a little bit more about some of the natural things

that pop into the mind in a scenario like this.

I think those would be questions like where am I?

What am I doing here?

Questions along those lines.

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