Behind The Mask

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

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Are you brave enough to see yourself without any of the masks you wear at work, at church, on social media, or wherever you claim to have moral standards and beliefs to which your behavior doesn't actually conform? Of the twenty or so obstacles on the spiritual path, hypocrisy may be the hardest to face, but it's the easiest to overcome. Eliminating the internal conflict of claiming to be one thing but being another is how we bring what we think, say, and do, into harmonious alignment. Without it, life can be unbearable, and true happiness unattainable. At least be brave enough to listen and think about it. Authenticity is both terrifying and liberating at the same time. As Kurt Cobain said, "I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Buddhist boot camp podcast.
0:09.0	Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life.
0:17.9	Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:27.4	Instead of imposing 10 commandments on us to follow in order to secure a pleasant afterlife,
0:34.2	Buddhism encourages us to avoid certain behavior patterns if we wish to have a pleasant life.
0:39.3	Rather than threatening us with eternal damnation if we fail to follow a prescribed code of conduct,
0:45.3	the Buddhist law of cause and effect, karma, simply states that our thoughts, words, and actions have consequences.
0:53.3	If you wear a t-shirt in a snowstorm,
0:55.7	you will be cold, not as a form of punishment, but as a natural byproduct of questionable life
1:00.9	choices. That's why I'm not a fan of words like right and wrong or good and bad, which sound
1:06.7	definitive and judgmental. I much prefer to view our behavior as either beneficial or detrimental to our intended outcome.
1:14.6	If your intention is to live a peaceful life, the Buddha outlined some beneficial traits that we can all practice,
1:22.6	such as diligence, conscientiousness, equanimity, and mental flexibility, just to name a few,
1:28.3	he also outlined what is detrimental to a peaceful life, resentment, jealousy, cruelty, spitefulness,
1:35.3	rage, and so on. Again, you won't be punished for being jealous, for example, but you will
1:41.3	suffer from the inherent emotional distress that is jealousy itself. The same is true
1:46.6	for lethargy, laziness, worry, attachment, doubt, and ignorance. Of the 20 or so contributors to our
1:53.7	misery, this episode focuses on Satya, often translated as hypocrisy, dishonesty, and deception. Hypocracy is challenging to discuss because
2:03.9	people don't like being caught in a lie. One of my teachers used to say the most difficult thing
2:09.0	for us to see is ourselves. We don't just conceal who we really are. We curate and advertise an
2:15.6	enviable version of ourselves for others to see.
2:18.7	And we have gotten so good at this, many of us actually believe the distorted projection is real.
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