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Oct 2022
30m 22s

174 - Be Whatever You Already Are

NOAH RASHETA
About this episode

A deep sense of unsatisfactoriness arises anytime we want to be other than how we are. It takes skillful effort to BE WHATEVER WE ALREADY ARE. In this episode, I will share my thoughts on the process of befriending our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and ultimately ourselves.


"No one to be"

"Nothing to do"

"Nowhere to go"


Some of the Buddhist concepts/topics shared in this episode:

  • Emptiness
  • Signlessness
  • Formlessness
  • Suffering/Unsatisfactoriness
  • Interdependent co-arising
  • Impermanence


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