Life is a Piece of Cake
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
Timber Hawkeye
4.8 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Before adding stuff to your life in an ongoing effort to make it better, contemplate what you can take out that's making it less than ideal in the first place. It could be a person, a job, a closely-held belief, perspective, attitude, opinion, etc.
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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. |
| 0:32.3 | In this podcast episode, I want to share with you a chapter from Buddhist boot camp called Life is a Piece of Cake. During the book tour |
| 0:35.5 | across the US, UK, and Australia people kept telling me this is one of their favorite |
| 0:40.6 | chapters. These podcast episodes are available without commercials |
| 0:45.3 | thanks to the generosity of listeners just like you who show their support with |
| 0:49.8 | automatic $1.1 contributions each month through Patreon.com slash Buddhist boot camp. |
| 0:56.5 | Join me on Patreon for our monthly live video Q&A sessions during which folks from all over the world tune in to ask questions |
| 1:04.8 | and discuss ways to implement some of the more challenging concepts discussed in |
| 1:09.2 | Buddhist boot camp and faithfully religionless into their daily lives. |
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| 1:17.0 | to be notified of upcoming live events, video, |
| 1:20.0 | and updates, and food for thought. Speaking of food, when a friend recently asked me if |
| 1:26.1 | there is anything I would change about my life, I instinctively said absolutely not. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean I am more content than I've ever been and happier than I ever thought would be possible. |
| 1:38.0 | He said well surely you would like to have more money, a bigger house or something. And I said no, I mean I'm already |
| 1:46.0 | happy. Who knows what more money would do to my life? A bigger house would just be |
| 1:50.9 | more to clean. What wants that responsibility? You see I moved |
| 1:55.4 | from Israel to the states when I was 14 years old and I thought this was going to be |
| 2:01.0 | the land of opportunity and abundance where everyone was going to be happy. |
| 2:06.6 | And yes, this is the land of opportunity and abundance, but many people aren't happy. They keep wanting more and adding more to their lives. |
| 2:15.7 | It's just never enough. So I saw it like this. If life is a cake recipe that we are trying to perfect, then I got my recipe down just right for now, |
| 2:26.6 | with the ideal amount of flour, sugar, baking soda, etc. |
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