Over 500 million people practice Buddhism around the world. Starting in India and spreading across the continent and the rest of the world, Buddhism contains key beliefs and practices that have since been embedded in the core values of societies, namely across Asia. The initial views of Buddhism revolve around the Buddha, meditation, and the ideas of nirvana and suffering for those outside of the religion.
As an Agnostic interested in what makes a religion, Jenny recently picked up her first book on Buddhism, "The Heart of Buddha's Teachings" to learn more about walk makes up this religion that has impacted so many underlying values in her second gen life. In this week's episode, Connie and Jenny sit down to talk about Jenny's learnings from this book, what resonates with the way they view the world, and where the differences in values lie between two types of "spiritual identities".
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