Accountability

Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Are you what the Buddha called a Hungry Ghost? If you expect the world to run according to you, that expectation is the source of your misery, not anybody or anything else. And if this accountability feels like an attack to someone, they are not yet ready to acknowledge their own behavior. This episode is about the entitlement, the greed, the self-centeredness, and general preoccupation with our own desires at the expense of others.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye. Accountability has been taught to us from an early age.
0:28.0	To get good grades in school, example we had to study. To get paid
0:35.6	we need to work and if we want clean clothes we must do the laundry. It sounds
0:41.1	pretty straightforward but there is a growing trend defying that logic, where people not only believe they deserve privileges they haven't earned, but no matter how much they get, the world still owes them more.
0:54.0	Psychologists can't explain this sense of entitlement, but Buddhism refers to those
0:59.1	afflicted by greed, jealousy, obsession, and compulsion as hungry ghosts, described as having huge appetites that can never be satiated.
1:09.0	Mindfulness highlights our accountability for our inner peace, meaning we can't live a positive life with a negative
1:17.0	attitude, for example, just like we can't expect to have food in the fridge if we didn't
1:21.8	shop for groceries.
1:23.5	I'm no stranger to entitlement, however.
1:26.2	In high school, when I thought my boss wasn't paying me enough at my first job, I felt entitled
1:31.8	to all the office supplies I stole, convincing myself I had earned it all through my hard work.
1:37.0	At the first law firm that hired me, we represented landlords evicting tenants who didn't pay their rent yet felt entitled to stay.
1:45.8	I've seen people show up late at the airport and get mad at the airline for taking off without them,
1:52.1	and we have all been or witnessed drivers expecting traffic on the road to part for them like the Red Sea.
1:59.0	As the joke goes, everyone faster than me is crazy and everyone slower than me is a jerk.
2:06.8	Now society's growing sense of entitlement is prevalent in many areas of our culture, but let's discuss what we all experience.
2:15.7	Road rage.
2:16.7	At one time or another we have all been on the giving or receiving end of it.
2:21.3	I got my driver's license on the day of my 16th birthday and
2:25.1	immediately started delivering pizzas in San Francisco. So for almost three
2:29.9	decades now I have not only driven in almost all 50 states across America, but I have also been fortunate enough to drive in various countries around the world.
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