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.

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but even if you play a different one each day, there are now enough episodes to cover a full month of listening.

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A couple of weeks ago, I was on the phone with a tech support agent and when I asked him

where he was located he said he was in Wisconsin. Whenever people tell me where they live,

I asked them why do they live where they do.

And it's amazing how rarely people say, because I absolutely love it here and I can't

imagine living anywhere else.

When I asked him why he was in Wisconsin, he said,

that's actually a good question. I don't know.

I was born and raised here, and I guess I just never left.

My wife and I actually hate it here,

and we often talk about leaving, but now that you mentioned it it I don't know why we're still here.

Well this got me thinking so let's pretend that our life is a road trip in the car and we start out as

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