The Gift of Time

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 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The lifetime we are given (the good times, the terrible, and all the time in between), is a gift from a mysterious stranger. And the natural response to receiving a gift is gratitude, not a sense of entitlement.

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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.
0:35.8	A few years ago, I gave a TED Talk in which I spoke about society's growing sense of entitlement and how imperative it is for us to define what enough means or we will never have it. We will always
0:41.0	want more if we don't determine what enough means to us, but I didn't realize at the time that the entitlement epidemic isn't only affecting the new generation. We are all infected.
0:52.2	Now our addiction to more may not be for more stuff around the
0:56.3	house or more money in the bank. It may be a silent yet persistent feeling
1:01.2	that there should be more to life. This leaves us
1:04.0	unsatisfied with the life we have regardless of how much is in it. Every spiritual
1:09.6	tradition tells us how important it is to practice gratitude.
1:13.5	We know that grateful people are happy people,
1:16.7	yet many of us don't fully appreciate
1:19.0	and sometimes even take for granted
1:21.2	the roof over our heads or food in our stomachs for example, but that's
1:25.2	probably because we've never had to go without. I'm reminded of a Zen story about a student who complained to his
1:32.1	teacher that focusing on the breath during meditation was boring.
1:36.2	So the teacher submerged the student's head underwater until the student started kicking and struggling to come up for air, at which point the master
1:44.8	released his grip, looked the student in the eye, and asked, do you still think the breath is
1:50.0	boring? Can we train ourselves and maybe even others to appreciate everything in our
1:56.5	lives without having to go without it for a while? It would take shifting our
2:00.8	perspective from feeling entitled to the time we have on this earth to seeing time as a
2:06.4	gift from a mysterious stranger. The reason I suggest considering our time a gift
2:12.3	is because we wouldn't need to learn anything new to practice this.
2:16.4	We are already familiar with the feeling of gratitude when someone gives us a present.
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