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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

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Focus on your health, and watch all the opinions that we tend to fret and argue about become trivial in comparison because nothing is more important. Please don't wait until you are sick to realize this!

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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	I'm aware that with today's technology, artificial intelligence can summarize any topic of
0:34.2	the Buddha's teachings in a matter of seconds, and you would get a much better
0:38.7	article than anything I could ever write.
0:41.3	The only things I can share that chat GPT cannot offer are personal experiences for my own
0:47.2	life where applying the ancient teachings has been tremendously helpful.
0:52.0	After all, our challenges today with attachment, judgment, desire,
0:57.0	aversion, greed, ego, hatred, and ignorance are not modern problems. And despite what many
1:04.0	people would like to think, there's nothing personal or unique about any of our issues,
1:09.0	we are all subject to what Taoism calls 10,000 sorrows and 10,000 joys.
1:15.2	A friend recently told me, of all the things I've lost, I miss my health the most. This deeply
1:21.5	resonated with me because health is the highest luxury we can experience in life. Think about it.
1:27.3	The moment any of us lose our health, we would willingly trade anything to get it back, but that's not always an option.
1:34.3	Sure, we may sacrifice certain things to improve or maintain our health, but it's rarely an immediate exchange with instant results.
1:42.3	I recently had to trade a once-in-a-lifetime experience in order to
1:46.7	recover from yet another medical setback, and let me tell you, I didn't even hesitate for a second
1:51.8	to cancel my plans so I can focus on getting better. A wonderful couple in Cape Town, South Africa,
1:58.8	flew me down to officiate their wedding at Mount Rochelle Nature Reserve.
2:03.6	Unfortunately, I apparently caught some sort of bacterial infection on the flight over, and although
2:09.4	the ceremony portion of the trip shortly after my arrival went smoothly, I remained painfully
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