Never Broken

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

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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As Maya Angelou said, "I may be changed by what happens in my life, but I refuse to be reduced by it." We are never broken unless we believe we are. If you find value in this podcast and what to keep it commercial-free, it is available without ads thanks to listeners just like you who show their support through BuddhistBootCamp.com/support Thank you for being a Soldier of Peace in the Army of Love.

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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.
0:32.4	I am irregularly invited to address congregations around the country with a 15 minute pep talk on Sunday mornings or sermons as they formerly call
0:36.2	them.
0:37.2	And you would think I would simply have them recorded so I can upload them as podcast episodes
0:41.8	for everyone who wasn't there to hear, but I'm not that technologically
0:45.2	advanced yet, so I'm working on catching you up on what's been on my mind.
0:49.5	At one of these Sunday services, a woman saying, I'm like one of those Japanese bowls where
0:55.3	the brakes are mended by filling them with gold rather than hiding the cracks
1:00.3	they were made to shine all the jagged lines make them more beautiful and
1:04.7	valuable. And if we don't hide our own breaks, we can be just like those Japanese bowls
1:10.0	so everyone can see we are not who we used to be.
1:13.0	As is the case with many people, I was raised in a household where we were constantly told
1:19.0	never to share with anyone outside the house what was going on inside the house, which in
1:24.4	hindsight should have been the first clue that some shady stuff was going on.
1:28.1	I remember grocery shopping with my mother when I was a teenager just a month or so after moving to San Francisco from Israel.
1:35.6	And the grocery cart had one of those advertisements on it where the baby's seat is located near the handlebars.
1:42.0	This advertisement had a black and white picture of a child
1:44.9	on it with a toll-free number to report child abuse. Being new to this country with broken
1:50.6	English and little understanding of the culture, I asked my cousin what child abuse meant.
1:55.8	She told me it's when parents beat up their children, to which I said, and what's your point?
2:00.7	As in, don't all kids get beat up? I had no idea that it was a crime because I assumed everyone's household operated similarly and we were all told not to talk about it.
2:12.0	Because my cousin's parents were going through a divorce at the time,
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