Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life.

Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

In Southern California, there is a church

across the street from a Jewish temple

and once a month, the rabbi gives the sermon at the Christian

fellowship and the minister addresses the synagogue with the important message that

though they may be located across the street from one another they are not enemies.

There's a lot of confusion about Buddhism as well. from one another, they are not enemies.

There is a lot of confusion about Buddhism as well, whether we worship idols if it's a philosophy

or a way of life, so please allow me to clarify that Buddhism is not a religion.

It is a practice just like yoga, which can be practiced by anyone regardless of their religion, race, age, gender, shape, or size.

The Buddha himself was not a God. He never claimed to be a God, the son of God, or even a messenger of God.

He was a flawed man just like the rest of us who simply gained clear perspective of the world

through nothing more than human effort.

We do not worship false idols or statues. We are merely

inspired that someone woke up to our interconnectedness and interdependence to tell

us that anyone can be a Buddha which is just a title that means awake. What he mastered

was his own mind. When we say he reached nirvana or was enlightened it is something

anyone can do that's perhaps what's so accessible about it. The actual origin of Buddhism itself

is not only secondary, but dare I say completely irrelevant. The reason Buddhism isn't in

conflict with organized religion is because it doesn't busy itself with tales of creation and the universe.

Like any philosophy, however, there are perhaps inevitably now over 800 different schools of Buddhism,

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