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 reason I wanted to talk with you today is because I keep being asked to offer some words of inspiration during this whirlwind. The thing that is really important for us to remember right now as people are freaking out and

panicking is that people don't know, well we don't know how long this is

going to last and we don't know if this is just going to be a week or if this is

going to be a year and a half and we become aware that nothing is ever certain.

Nothing ever was certain.

So the only thing that we've lost during this time of transition

is this illusion of security and this false sense of stability. It's not that we used to know and now we don't. We are now aware that we've never known. We never know what tomorrow is going to bring. We never know how long things are going to last and so we're getting more in touch with reality now than we've ever been.

And that can be scary for people because especially control freaks because they like feeling like they are under

control like they got it all figured out they know what's going to happen tomorrow they have plans for

next month they have reservations for next year they know where life is going to take them

and then all of a sudden the rug is swept out from under you

and it doesn't necessarily have to be a virus.

It could be a divorce.

It could be getting laid off work. It could be a number of things, a death in the family, your own death, the death of someone else. It could really, you know, pull the rug out from under you and we've often posted when something like this happens in life just

yell out plot twist and keep going and so this is a major plot twist and if we treat it as such then there's a sort of release and

acceptance and dare I say surrender in the most beautiful sense to come what may

to allow to trust to witness. You know I often

invite you guys to treat everything in life like as an experiment. What can I

learn about myself from this? These are interesting times and I actually I want to talk about that I want to talk about how the words with which we describe our experience dictate our experience.

So if you're using adjectives to describe what's happening right now as horrible and tragic,

just use the word interesting and say this is interesting. It takes

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