Finding Inner Peace
Stillness in the Storms
Finding Inner Peace: Do You Need to Be a Buddhist?
- Published
- March 29, 2026
- Duration
- 19:48
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 11, 2026
Discusses health, mental, religion, society, culture.
Summary
Do you need to be a Buddhist to find inner peace? I am not one, and I do not think you need to be either.I am recording this three days after an operation and on painkillers, so bear with me. I collected the statues and the pictures and the apps and books I never read. What I was after was for the calm to rub off. But the practices do not need the beliefs…
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Do you need to be a Buddhist to find inner peace? I am not one, and I do not think you need to be either.I am recording this three days after an operation and on painkillers, so bear with me. I collected the statues and the pictures and the apps and books I never read. What I was after was for the calm to rub off. But the practices do not need the beliefs. Meditation, awareness, compassion for yourself and for others, sitting with what is rather than fighting it. None of that asks you to believe
Themes
- health
- mental
- religion
- society
- culture