205 - Right View
6/10/202530 min
In this episode, I share the audio recording of a Dharma talk I gave during one of our Sunday Zoom calls. The topic is Right View, the first step on the Buddhist Eightfold Path. Inspired by the book Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, I explore the nature of truth and how we relate to it in our everyday lives.
I talk about three distinct types of truth—objective, subjective, and intersubjective—and how understanding these can help us develop a more skillful and compassionate view of reality. Using analogies like traffic lights, tinted glasses, and even Tetr...
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The Secular Buddhism Podcast is now on eightfoldpath.com with transcripts, AI chat, and more. Visit eightfoldpath.com. [gentle music] Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 205. I am your host, Noah Rasheta. I want to remind you, as always, that 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. Today's episode is the audio of a Dharma talk that I gave during one of our Sunday Zoom calls. These are weekly calls that I do with podcast listeners and supporters, with members of the Secular Buddhism Podcast online community. And the audio is on the topic of right view. So without further ado, let's jump right into the topic for this podcast episode. This week, I wanted to talk about the topic of right view, which is the first in the Eightfold Path. But what inspired this is actually a book that I just started reading this week. I'm only on the first chapter, but this is the book Nexus by Noah Yuval Harari, and he wrote