#00047 It’s time to Be Who You Are with Noah Rasheta

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first interview of Season 5! The first interview of 2023! I am so excited!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m also delighted to have had some really beautiful moments with my guest, Noah Rasheta.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Noah’s probably best known as the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast, and an author, and a paragliding instructor. I was really moved by his story – from Dan Greening, a previous guest – and I really benefited from his story, and his Vibe.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Vibe” is a hard concept to define. For me, it’s something about what a person has really integrated into themself, versus just what we say or claim to have learned.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a lot of people who talk about Buddhism. Who are interested in Enlightenment. Who have spent years (or decades) studying it. And I’ve met quite a few of those in my travels and my studies.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And then there’s the sense I get when I’m around someone who feels “different”. And that’s the Vibe. That there’s more than an intellectual understanding, but a lived experience behind the words.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s what Uncle Jamal would call “Knowledge of the Heart” as opposed to “Knowledge of the Tongue”. And Noah has it.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And when someone has it, it almost doesn’t matter what’s being communicated out loud. Because the real communication is a bass note, almost inaudible, below the words, and more impactful than the words could ever hope to be.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cherished listeners: Noah Rasheta.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Links:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voicemail: </span> <a href= "https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow