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Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich,

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and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. 

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

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Do you remember the magicians who used to spin plates atop poles on stage at the circus?

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The trick was to get as many of the plates spinning at the same time without letting any

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of them drop. This required constant attention to each plate, giving it just enough 

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momentum every few seconds to keep it spinning, and then rushing to do the same 

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with another plate so that it doesn't fall off the pole. This depicts how most of us live 

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our lives, with multitasking condoned in the workplace and perpetuated in society 

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as an asset, while it's actually a disease that we're suffering from in epidemic proportions.

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Like we're addicted to being busy or something. As a direct by-product of a bigger,

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better, faster, more, mentality, we take a simple life and we complicate it to no end.

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Our wants become needs, and before we know it, we believe we can't live without something

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that we didn't even know existed a year ago. We are spoiled rotten, over-stimulated,

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and rightfully exhausted, but it's our own fault. Some of the plates we try spinning

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don't even make sense with everything else we've got going on. So we essentially 

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guarantee that one or more of them will inevitably drop. And we've been doing this

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for so long that we don't know any other way to be. The dream, perhaps for all of us, is 

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to lead a simple and uncomplicated life. And even though it's difficult to imagine a way out

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of our current situations if we feel stuck, there are always options. The trick is to 

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figure out what is standing in our way of deciding to get out, and that "something"

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is almost always our own fears and insecurities. Having faith is embracing

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the unknown, taking a step forward even when you're not sure where it will lead.

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Not because you're a daredevil, but because scary as that step might be, it's not nearly

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as scary as staying stuck. We more frequently regret steps that we haven't taken in life

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 than the steps that we have. Besides, how can we grow if we don't have faith that all of our

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past experiences were not mistakes, but actually necessary steps to equip us with 

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the strength needed to make it through what's ahead? Whatever we want more 

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will inevitably be what motivates us. When in doubt, look at your actions and you'll see

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your priorities. Those who are afraid of never having enough, ultimately never have enough.

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And those who are grateful for what they already have, always live in abundance.

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"The richest man is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least."

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Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of Faithfully Religionless 

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and Buddhist Boot Camp. 

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For additional information, please visit BuddhistBootCamp.com,

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where you can order autographed books to support the Prison Library Project, 

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watch Timber's inspiring TED Talk, and join our monthly mailing list.

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We hope you have enjoyed this episode

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and invite you to subscribe for more thought-provoking discussions.

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Thank you for being a Soldier of Peace in the Army of Love. 🙏