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.

Let's begin this podcast with the backstory of Buddhist Boot Camp and how it came to be.

Over 10 years ago, when I left the corporate world

and moved to Hawaii, I started emailing my friends every month

to let them know what's going on in my life.

About eight years later, my friend Kim suggested that I share those emails with the world

because she found the letters inspirational and she figured other people would

benefit from reading them as well. That's how the emails became a blog and the blog became the book that is now

Buddhist boot camp. It turns out that Kim was right. People all over the world have

found the message in Buddhist boot camp refreshing inspirational and more importantly motivational.

I think motivation is a lot more important because inspiration without action is just

entertainment and my invitation is for us to go beyond thinking that something is a good idea to actually implementing it into our daily lives.

What I love about Buddhism is that it isn't a religion.

There is no Creator theory, nor a story about the beginning or the end of times.

It also doesn't require other beliefs to be wrong, but rather strengthens your existing faith, whatever it may be.

Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method that

compresses a lot of information into a shorter period of time without losing any of its

integrity. You don't need to be a Buddhist to find the

Buddha's teachings motivational. As the Dalai Lama says, don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism

to be a Buddhist. Just use it to be a better whatever you already are.

So whether it's Mother Teresa's acts of charity, Gandhi's perseverance, or even your Aunt Betty's calm demeanor,

as long as you're motivated to be better today than you were yesterday,

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