Echo Chamber

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

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a close circle of friends who help you grow and evolve, or do you have an echo chamber in which everyone you know keeps you confined in a loop of destructive behavior, stunting your growth instead of promoting it?

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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.
0:32.0	Today I want to talk about the importance of diversity in our circle of friends so that we don't end up in a comfortable little bubble of
0:35.2	familiarity where all of our beliefs, perspectives, and values are simply echoed back to us by everyone
0:41.9	we know, everything we read, watch, or listen to, rather than constantly
0:46.1	challenging ourselves to grow, evolve, and be inclusive instead of exclusive.
0:51.7	When I first tried to lose weight it was difficult to spend time with friends who ate at Burger King every day.
0:58.0	So I surrounded myself with people who regularly exercised, made nutritious food choices, and kept stress to a minimum in their daily lives.
1:06.8	They later told me that helping me find the path to better health also strengthened
1:11.6	their own resolve to stay on it.
1:13.2	Spiritually, it doesn't matter how badly you want to grow and evolve or how many inspirational
1:19.2	books you read if the people in your life keep you confined in a closed loop of destructive behavior.
1:25.6	When dieting, destructive behavior is easy to define as French fries and ice cream,
1:31.3	for example. But what constitutes destructive spiritual behavior?
1:35.2	Where do we draw the line?
1:36.6	I've met people who struggle to make their mortgage payments but have a house full of
1:40.4	crystals and Buddha statues, hardcore activists with high blood pressure just one
1:45.2	protest away from collapsing, and minimalists shaming other minimalist for not being
1:50.0	minimalistic enough. True story. At its very core, Buddhism teaches the way to end
1:55.6	our suffering is through right understanding, right thought, right speech,
2:00.9	right action, right Action, Right Livelyhood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
2:08.0	The problem I see with this common translation of Right Speech, Right action, etc. is the implication that there is wrong action, wrong livelihood, and so on.
2:19.0	Instead of right versus wrong, I personally prefer distinguishing between behavior that is conducive to end our suffering and behavior that is not.
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