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.

Today's podcast episode features 30 life lessons inspired by Buddhist wisdom.

It's been nearly a decade of hosting the secular Buddhism

podcast and I've distilled out of all of these hours of content 30 of my favorite life lessons inspired by Buddhist wisdom.

And these nuggets have profoundly shaped my daily life and they represent the core teachings

that I'm often talking about or presenting or when somebody

asks me to summarize the key teachings from Buddhism, these would be the 30 life lessons that I would probably talk about.

It's worth repeating once again this notion that you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist, you can use it to be a better

whatever you already are. And I think this is one of those places where that's extremely evident.

As you listen to these 30 life lessons, you may find that some resonate with you, you

may find that others don't.

And the only reason I'm sharing these with you is because some of them might be useful for you.

Some of them might help you to truly be a better whatever you already are, but there's no

intent in the sharing of these to make you something other than what you already are.

So I just want to clarify that like I do again at the beginning of every podcast episode.

And I hope that these resonate with you and if one

stands out more than another I'd love to hear about it so let's jump right in. The first one is moments have layers.

There's the experience, there's your awareness of the experience and the meaning that you give it,

or the story, the inner narrative and it's helpful to notice the difference between them.

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