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. Faithfully religionless is my second book. The first one was called Buddhist boot camp.

When I left the corporate world and moved to Hawaii,

I started emailing my friends and family a short letter each 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 on a blog simply because

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

benefit from reading them as well and as it it turns out, Kim was right.

The blog became a book published by Harper Collins,

and many people found the simple message

in those emails refreshing, inspirational,

and even more importantly motivational.

I say motivation is 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.

The chapters in Buddhist boot camp can be read in any order and are short and easy to understand.

Each story and inspirational quote offers mindfulness enhancing

techniques that anyone can relate to reinforcing what we intuitively already

know but has somehow forgotten. Following is the introduction from the book along with a couple of

sample chapters to give you a taste. Enjoy. To make a long story short, I sat there in front of the Tibetan

Lama wearing my maroon robes after years of studying Buddhism.

With all due respect I said I don't believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get this complicated.

My teacher looked around at all the statues of

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