Hello and welcome to the secular Buddhism podcast, a podcast that presents Buddhist

teachings, concepts, and ideas from a secular perspective. 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. I am your host

Noah Rocheta and let's jump in to today's topic.

Welcome back to the podcast.

Today's podcast episode is on the topic of Em uncertainty and experiencing groundlessness.

This is a topic that's been on my mind. I know and I acknowledge that there are collective

and individual uncertainties that we all face in our lives.

And sometimes they are major.

I'm thinking about people who are dealing with the uncertainty of war and violence,

people who are dealing with the uncertainty of the loss of a loved one,

loss of a job, financial instability,

the uncertainty of political and election outcomes,

all the way down to minor frustrations,

uncertainty of where I placed my keys and what am I going to do

with my broken phone and little things. Embracing uncertainty is a topic that's relevant to all of us and I want to recognize

the universal nature of uncertainty. While these circumstances may be unique, in other words, we each may be

experiencing our own form of uncertainty, uncertainty is a shared human

experience.

None of us can control the future,

and this state of perpetual groundlessness

is a constant in our life.

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