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.

When I was a teenager, my parents told everyone's stories about what a violent toddler and child they used to be, and whenever I got into trouble in school for what the teachers called emotional outbursts,

we just shrugged it off as part of my violent nature.

My friend Michelle is notoriously uncoordinated. She's always falling off her bike or

tripping on her shoes, bleeding or limping for one reason or another, for which she blames her naturally clumsy personality. Her sister Ashley, the other hand is an amazing gymnast

often attributing her success to her natural agility. I've heard people say it's in their

nature to worry for example just as my cousin refers to himself as a natural

overachiever, and I have spent my life making general statements like math doesn't naturally

come to me the way it does to others. But what if it's all a lie? And since we tend to believe

whatever we tell ourselves, Michelle keeps getting hurt. Ashley just won another medal in gymnastics,

I completely dismissed pursuing a career as an architect because it would have required too much math, and people who strongly believe in God continue to worry even though worrying directly contradicts having faith. It turns out I'm not as

naturally violent as my parents thought I was, my outbursts were just learned

behavior and when I decided to go back to college after 18 years I

surprisingly got all A's in my math classes. This empowered me to tackle other

challenges in which I had previously believed I was predestined to fail, so imagine what

rebooting can do for someone who was raised with the doctrine that we are all born sinners,

for example, and believed it.

So here's my question for you today. What do you believe is your

true nature and is it possible you've been wrong all along? Have you been saying

something is in your nature or not in your nature as an excuse to do it or not to. What if we were to put an end to

believing certain untruths about ourselves because I am convinced that we can overcome a lot more than we ever thought possible by simply

believing that we can and not just individually but collectively. All we need is a

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