Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
The intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of Buddhist Boot Camp, Faithfully Religionless, and the Opposite of Namaste. He offers a secular approach to being at peace with the world, both within and around us. As the Dalai Lama says, "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist, use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are."
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 178
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
August 2017 Q&A
This month's recording of the live Q&A hosted on Facebook was about breakups, death, jealousy, kids, marriage, and unreasonable expectations. To find out when the next live Q&A will take place, subsc…
Decision Fatigue
Simplify your life even more, and avoid decision fatigue, by setting certain standards for yourself in advance. This way almost every decision would already be made for you, by you, ahead of time.
Life as an Experiment
Everything is subject to time, place, and circumstance, so stay flexible, fluid, and open-minded. Celebrate Impermanence!
Core Values
You can't be happy if you're not living in line with your own core values. And you can't live in line with your values if you don't even know what they are. Companies have a vision statement, code of…
Relax? What's That?
We can only use the problem-solving tools we've got, which is why it's best to have a wide selection instead of just one. Those with only a hammer try to solve everything by beating it to death (not …
Labels
I am a lot of things and not one of them defines me. You are also many things, so don't limit yourself to just a few.
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Bad Mood
There is a difference between always being happy and always being in a good mood.
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Hurt Feelings
If you regularly blame other people for something that is not their fault, then you also make it their job to fix what is your own responsibility to maintain, like your inner peace.
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Healthy Relationships
Growing away from possessiveness toward a collaboration and co-creation of transformative relationships.
Zoom Out
If we focus on everything that's wrong in the world or in our lives, then we're overlooking everything that's right. The trick is to zoom out and look at the big picture.
The Origin of Anger
Anger is a mask that covers hurt feelings or fear. If we learn to explain our anger instead of expressing it, we will immediately move away from hatred and rage, and gently open the door to solutions…
Don't Play the Blame Game
If you respond to any situation in life by saying, “This shouldn’t be happening,” you will experience anger, anxiety, despair, and hopelessness, which are significantly worse than the situation itsel…
Training the Mind
Ever want to focus on something but your mind keeps drifting away to whatever IT wants to think about, or really want to stop thinking about something but your mind "can't help it?" That's because yo…
Grasping and Letting Go
The way we do one thing is the way we do everything. If we practice letting go of the little things, we exercise the same muscle with which we can then let go of the big stuff in life (from old opini…
Introduction: What Buddhist Boot Camp is All About
This episode is about the back story of Buddhist Boot Camp, and how the blog to book to podcast came to be.