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.

The way we do one thing is the way we do all things.

So if we go through life habitually hoarding old birthday cards and

souvenirs, trinkets, bank statements and receipts, clothes, broken appliances and

old magazines, then we also go through life hanging on to pride, anger,

outdated opinions and fears.

And I'm not necessarily suggesting that there is a problem with having those old yearbooks in the attic or extra cups in your

cupboard and bottles of shampoo around the shower or towels in the linen closet, it's that

there's an incredible benefit of letting that stuff go, because then you're exercising

the muscle of letting go instead of the clenching and the clinging.

I saw a quote online the other day that said everything I've ever let go of had claw marks in it.

And that's because we tend to dig in so deep, you know, to just cling to it.

And there's such an incredible freedom from loosening our grip on it and moving on.

It helps us move on from resentments and anger and jealousy and everything else because it's that same muscle and if we exercise and

if we exercise it with the little things, then it becomes much easier later on.

If we're so attached to tangible things,

imagine how difficult letting go of opinions must be, let alone

opening our minds to new ideas, perspectives, possibilities and futures. Our beliefs

inevitably solidify to be the only truth and reality that we know, and the problem with that is that it puts a greater distance between us and anyone whose beliefs are different from our own, and this distance not only segregates us, but it fees our pride.

All of this grasping, by the way, it stems from fear.

Why are we so terrified of change, strangers, the new or the unknown?

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