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

beliefs

beliefs don't make you a better person.

Your behavior does.

And a lot of people get confused because they assume that our behavior is closely tied to our beliefs that

Naturally we don't do anything that we don't believe in but that's not really true a lot of us believe that lying is not a good thing and yet we all lie throughout the day in various ways.

And so the invitation is for us to actually write down what our core values are,

just as a list.

And furthermore, write down a paragraph

describing the kind of person you want to be.

And just get creative with the adjectives,

just get really clear about the kind of person you want to be the kind of life you

want to lead and just really get in there narrating it.

And it's not in one sit, you know, you can write it and come back to it later, but write down your

core values, what your intentions are in the world, and how you want that to come across in everything that you do in your behavior, and then cross-reference it with the person you are today and you'll immediately see where you have some work to do.

And the beautiful thing about having core values is that it makes a lot of your decisions for you.

If you're proposed a job somewhere and it sounds really really good

before accepting it you cross-reference it with your core values and go does this job

actually meet those requirements so I can live in line with my values. It was Gandhi who said that

happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in alignment,

when they're all in harmony. And that's a really good practice to get into and how do we make sure that they are?

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