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.

If your happiness depends on something you can lose, you will spend your entire life afraid of losing it.

But if your happiness depends on who you are,

then everything and everyone in your life can come or go

as they naturally would anyway,

and not only would you no longer live in fear of losing anything,

you would never feel like you've lost everything when you do.

The important question to answer therefore is is who are you?

And can you answer that question without describing aspects of your life that can be lost at any moment,

like a job title, relationship status, your wealth, health, youth, etc.

We spend so much time sculpting the outward expression of who we are, our bios,

but what if all of those things were somehow taken from us? Family members, photographs, all records of educational achievements, your credit score, citizenship, home, and even our names, what would be left?

That's who you are.

That's your essence and it's constantly growing and evolving.

This is why I think we must get to know who we are instead of what we are.

Every single life experience is an opportunity for us to define who we are in relation

to what is happening.

Not to judge it as good or bad, but to decide right there and then who

we want to be in that moment.

Who am I?

Well, you've heard me say that I am not what has happened in my life nor what I have done.

I am who I choose to become today.

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