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The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: Democrats Won't Stop at Only Taking Your Guns
"I'm not a huge fan of Jonah Goldberg You stay out of that or anything But he had a really great column though I'm pretty sure it was his I think it was that hot air I don't remember I always screw up where it's from But the columns 8 years old maybe 7 8 years old And he made a really great point about why the left just never wins on this argument about taking away people's guns As a matter of fact amber as you well know not only that I'm winning they're getting just destroyed constitutional carries taking over large swaths of America right now The gun argument is a big huge cultural loss for the left And monster loss right Which is one of few areas you've been successful But Goldberg's premise in peace is that you know the war against smoking worked really well because everybody knew a smoker So you knew how to talk to that person you know Mom dad don't smoke it does this and that you know what would kind of ring their bell But the Democrats don't talk to gun owners like that The first words out of their mouth these Jamal Bowman screaming at you that you want kids to die more death As if that's gonna win any way leave an impression like oh yeah I want to talk and negotiate with this guy over my right to defend my family They just don't know how to talk to us and that's why they just continue to get wrecked That's definitely a huge part of it And by the way this is also the same party that would gladly take away all of our rights not just our gun rights if they had the opportunity They talk about Australia and New Zealand well guess what happened and Australia and New Zealand when people didn't take the vaccine They were literally routed up and put in camps Yes Yes Yes Which was called the conspiracy theory right And everybody was called the crazy conspiracy theorists All they loved every second of it Same thing in Canada We were told that's not going to happen in representative democracies You're not going to have protesters locked up in their money confiscated and thrown in jail No that actually happened That actually happened
The Officer Tatum Show
The Solution to the Problem
"I think it's very simple, very clear we need police officers at the school, we need the doors to be locked when circumstances and situations have presented themselves in schools where they follow protocol a very minimal amount of carnage and a suspect is typically dead within minutes. A same thing happened in south oak cliff. I think it was they were in a summer camp or something to that nature. And the suspect came in and tried to shoot up the summer camp at the gymnasium, he came through the front and the reception and start busting caps. Wasn't even talking, just start busting. So they get into a shootout right there at the reception desk, so the suspect runs out of the entryway, tries to go through a door couldn't get in the door why 'cause the door was locked. And then the police officer showed up shortly after that and smoked him like a brisket. So to me, that was a very simplistic way to protect the kids. On the teachers have somebody armed, have police respond, make sure the doors are locked, and everybody live to see another day.
AP News Radio
Holocaust survivor shares on TikTok to educate young people
"Teenager Aaron Goodman is taking to TikTok in a bid to combat anti semitism with the help of his 85 year old grandmother. Tova Friedman has become a TikTok star. My name is I was unleashed. In the family living room and Morris town, New Jersey, Friedman's grandson records and post short videos of his grandmother's memories of her life in the Auschwitz death camp. A whole barracks survived for whatever reason, we were taken to the gas chamber, but we were sent back. And we never know why. Aaron Goodman, who's 17, was looking for a way to fight anti semitism. We have about 75 million views. And the most viewed videos are ones that show her number. The tattoo she received at Auschwitz. People around the world can't really get the chance to see a survivor to see the history on their arms. Friedman says what she learned from Auschwitz is the resiliency of human nature. Maybe we were made like that. I'm Ed Donahue
The Officer Tatum Show
Veteran Uses Platform to Bring Hope
"Listen, Chad, there's so much that I'd like to talk to you about. First off, let me say this. Thank you for what you're doing for vets. And when I talk about what you're doing for Bette, people might not know this, you've been extremely transparent. And vulnerable when it comes to your own stories of PTSD, the mighty oaks foundation, if you would just talk about that briefly here because you help out veterans with a biblical perspective that have gone through PTSD, dark times, talk about the mighty oaks foundation if you would. Yeah, well, you know, it started with me. I came home from 8 deployment to Afghanistan as part of a joint special operations command task force. Had my own hardships coming home, dealt with anxiety, depression, severe panic attacks, and diagnosed with PTSD. I had a three year downward spiral that ended in me almost losing my family. And a very real suicide attempt where resulted in people coming around me, helping me to get well and of all the things that people did for me to get well was nothing was probably more profound than a restoration of my faith in the other side of that. I just felt a deep burden of my heart that I really believed God put there for me to help others. And I used the platforms that had been given through a really good reputation to special operations community, being a professional athlete, using those two platforms to broadcast the message of hope to other people struggling just like I was. And that is stored at 12 years ago with the founding of the mighty oaks foundation over the last 12 years. We really do four things. One is we do resiliency programs of active duty military. Based around the world, I've been able to personally speak to about a half million active duty troops throughout the program. Even as much as going to Marine Corps boot camp, every quarter now for the last 8 years, I've been in the Marine Corps boot camp and speaking to recruits on the four pillars of resiliency on spiritual agency and just being the warriors that our country needs them to be. And this world needs them to be.
AP News Radio
Paul Newman's camp for sick kids rises from the ashes
"A huge creative center at a camp for seriously ill kids founded by the late actor Paul Newman opens today following a 2021 fire. The $4.5 million creative center in Ashford, Connecticut, is 11,000 ft² of February 2021 fire destroyed many of the facilities at the hole in the wall gang camp, but donations helped rebuild it, artist muse shone created a large mosaic centerpiece at the new facility which reads camp is magic. The kids are so present and so excited to be here. And it's sort of like we were we were all sort of just creating this magic world together. Jimmy canton is the camp's chief executive. What was a traumatic, horrible event? Was quickly turned around because of the kindness of strangers and the loyalty of longtime friends. I'm Donna warder
Mark Levin
International Court Issues War Crimes Warrant for Putin
"Over at mediocre I just in the ICC International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin Over alleged war crimes including unlawful deportation of children There's been nobody in broadcasting certainly nobody Whose conservative who's been condemning Putin for his War crimes as thoroughly as I have You know maybe it's because as somebody who used to watch a lot of these shows and films about World War II the world at war as a young man I would watch these shows and as part of those shows you would see the devastation I would take place I remember watching one of these black and white films Where Eisenhower was walking through one of the death camps I think he had Omar Bradley and Patton with him if memory serves I could be wrong And It was either patner Bradley got sick to their stomach They couldn't believe what they saw the stench was unbelievable even Ike said That he's never seen evil like this before There's a man that let our forces during World War II And I'm sensitive to this And I think about what happened in Rwanda During the Clinton administration when everybody turned their back and 800,000 people Were slaughtered in three months And mostly with knives and machetes and swords I remember those pictures too
Mark Levin
Benjamin Hall: Learning More About Roderick Hall
"Well let me know my father was born and raised in the Philippines in Manila and he was born just before the Second World War And his father was Scottish his mother was Spanish Filipino And the Japanese invaded when he was 8 years old And for four years he was in a Japanese prison camp His family were killed And he eventually was released and lived for a couple of years in the bombed out streets of Manila And at the end when general McCarthy came back in to free the Philippines my father was living in the streets with his three younger siblings who were as young as ages of 6 And he knew that the Japanese were killing everyone as they pulled back and that the only way to survive was to try as someone told him to find the American lines get to the GI who were coming in and he did that He took a group of kids and he ran through the bombed out streets and I first shot a little boy next to him until finally they reached the point in the city where the Americans were at the other end of the street and they were shouting at him to keep running to us run to us and he made it down that road and he always told the story to me about being picked up into the arms of a GI from the Buckeye division Ohio National Guard and he was pulled behind the tank and he was rescued And he was rescued that day And from there he made his way to the U.S. himself And he went to college He signed up and served for the U.S. Army in Korea and he was saved around the world by American GIs when he was in trouble and he became the first and proudest American ever And I feel the same way and about 77 years later I was around the world and Americans stuck in a war zone and I made it to Poland and there was the U.S. Military who opened their arms and got me into a Black Hawk and saved me too And so I talk about it in the book There is this incredible similarity We come from a family of proud Americans that has been saved around the world by an incredible forces And so that's something I feel incredibly strongly about And
Mark Levin
The Things the Media Won't Report On
"When's the last time they talked about all the assassinations When's the last time they talked about the re-education camps at Putin is set up for Ukrainians When's the last time they mentioned to you the tens of thousands of children that have been trained from Ukraine into Russia Why don't they talk about that Tonight we have a huge story in the New York Post about the horrific genocide that's taking place in Ukraine Why don't they report that They can still have their opinions They can still conclude that we shouldn't be there We shouldn't spend money there We should be focused on our border and not their border and on and on They can sail those things but why don't they say the other things I say them And then Ukraine is responsible you see far inflation Ukraine is responsible for Joe Biden's boneheaded policies That have caused energy shortages and energy increases Bank failures Industry failures The loss of energy independence The open borders Ukraine is responsible for it And yet you know damn well if we had nothing to do with Ukraine Biden would still be destroying America Biden would still be destroying America The war machine is not in Washington It's in Moscow The war machine is not in Washington It's in Beijing The war machine is not in Washington It's in Tehran The war machine is not in Washington It's in North Korea We American firsters Why do we trash our own country
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: 'Autistic' Is Not a Way to Describe Donald Trump
"Actually just pick up my daughter who has autism, so I was running a little bit hot with respect to the use of that language. And I want to send too much time on it, but I'm reflected as well. I thought it was a kind of an outlier with respect to an adjective. That's not just a daughter. I don't think she's anything like Donald Trump. No, that's what I thought. I thought exactly what you thought. And that is, I think, even more offensive. In my estimation, I just don't get it. Right. And one other point I wanted to ask you about is you mentioned that and I voted for Donald Trump twice, I kind of moved away from his camp, but when you say he's not a rhino, do you think the Republicans are in any way, shape, or form, kind of responsible for this bloated budget problem that we currently have. I'm just curious because it seems like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. A 1000% Andrew, and this goes back multiple administrations. I would go back to George W. Bush, and they would they spent money like they were drunk Democrats. And nobody wants to address us. And I'll tell you something else at Andrew, we talk about the investigations into Biden and Hillary and Obama. They've been investigating for 5 years the Republicans have 5 years, and we've got nothing out of that. Absolutely nothing.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
EEA Member Spotlight with UNCX Networks CEO and Cofounder Antoine Chaveron
"5 p.m. Thursday March 9th, 2023. EA member spotlight with UNC X network CEO and cofounder Antoine severin. As an EEA member, UNC X network is part of the EEA community of organizations working to advance Ethereum and drive industry adoption. In the camp a below, the EEA interviewed Antoine Chevron CEO and cofounder about how the organization contributes to the Ethereum business ecosystem. Please introduce your company and yourself. My name is the post EEA member spotlight with UNC X network CEO and cofounder Antoine Chevron appeared first on enterprise Ethereum alliance.
Mark Levin
Monica Showalter: Another Pulitzer Prize Discredited As Propaganda
"Nonetheless Monica showalter writes another Pulitzer Prize discredited his propaganda she writes in the American thinker Remember all that political hay the far left and its media Made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally in the importance of abandoning that country to the communists Here's the Pulitzer Prize winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences Make us turn against that so called immoral war against the communist takeover and it's the picture Excuse me of South Vietnamese police captain Coldly executing Viet Cong captain on von lem There's no doubt about it The photo is hard to look at she writes its crude rough wartime justice The film is even harder to look at He ran on the front page of The New York Times cropped from the original To fill the space and make it impact even more impact even more immediate And it got the results the anti war left wanted public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of that photo The people were abandoned by the Americans who cut and run Evacuation from Saigon embassy on the rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pull out And after that the re-education camps rolled in the boat people launched into the high seas and the killing fields of Cambodia began Jane Fonda must have been so proud of herself Just one problem The context was missing And that context mattered
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Dr. Gorka and Mr. Reagan Review Harry Dean Stanton in 'Red Dawn'
"Course. The wolverines of the training defense of the quote unquote re-education camp in red dawn, Swayze talking to his father, Harry dean Stanton, one of the most emotional moments of the movie red dawn. Shouting to his sons as they leave avenge me. Help me out here, Chris. I've never understood that performance was remarkable. But I've never understood the Harry dean Stanton cult. People love Harry dean Stanton. I didn't know there was one. Oh, there is. I mean, amongst a certain group of movie buffs, he's like whether it's in alien is what the engineers or whether it's here. I even milius says, Harry dean Stanton, how can you do any better than Harry? He's a compelling guy. Yeah. You know? I mean, compelling people in film. I mean, it's a thing. It's important to have that and underrated people. People like to support people who are underrated, I think. Okay. That makes sense. That makes sense. And what's interesting about that scene in particular, this is not a dialog heavy film. No. And it's not like esoteric language. It's not sophisticated, you know, reams of dialog. It's not these poetry of Shakespeare. These very simple lines. Yes. But very powerful. And everyone in this film is very sincere.
The Bible in a Year
Aaron and Miriam Speak Against Moses
"It is day 62, and we are reading from numbers, chapter 12 and 13 deuteronomy chapter 11 in psalm 94. Numbers chapter 12 Aaron and Miriam speak against Moses. Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the kushite woman whom he had married. For he had married a kushite woman, and they said, has the lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also? And the lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek. More than all men that were on the face of the earth and suddenly the lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam come out you three to the tent of meeting. And the three of them came out. And that the lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the door of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward, and he said here my words if there is a profit among you, I the lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is entrusted with all my house, with him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech. And he beholds the form of the lord. Why then, were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the lord was kindled against them, and he departed, and when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold she was leprous. And Aaron said to Moses, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. Let her not be as one dead. Of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. And Moses cried to the lord. Heal her oh God, I beg you. if her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed 7 days? Let her be shut up outside the camp 7 days, and after that, she may be brought in again.
AP News Radio
Senators beat Rangers 5-3 to spoil Patrick Kane's debut
"The debut of a new ranger was spoiled by a pair of old ones as the senators earned a 5 three win at Madison Square Garden. Derek Broussard scored twice to back fellow X ranger camp Talbot, who stopped 29 shots. Talbot denied Patrick Kane with a pad save with 5 minutes left in the third. Cain was playing for the first time since the rangers acquired him from the Blackhawks this week. It would be nice to kind of settle in. Get a couple practices and kind of understand the way they want to play. The blue shirts led three to two until Broussard scored on an assist from Claude Giroux, who provided the tie breaking goal less than two minutes later. I'm Dave fairy.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
A “National Divorce” Is Already Under Way...
"I'm continuing my discussion of Marjorie Taylor Greene's idea of a national divorce. But I want to argue in this segment that this is something that is already going on. It's not a separation of America, but it's a separation of the two ideological camps within America. Now I've argued for some time and I also argue in my speeches about how we have to create our own America inside of America and live in it and police a defendant. And that means creating our own schools, a massive project, but we have to do it. Our own colleges and universities. I don't think we need to build hundreds of brick and mortar institutions. I think we need a few of those. But we also need a high quality online education offered at a very low cost. And the beauty of this is not only does this provide an alternative to what's in higher education, but it destroys the existing model of higher education, which relies on parents putting their lifetime savings aside and then putting it at the altar of sending their kids off to schools that often do nothing more than ideologically indoctrinate and corrupt, you against your children against your values. But let me focus now on just a simple fact that people are voting with their feet against blue America and moving to red America. And by the way, that's a pretty good sign of which system is working better, right? I mean, you have what Hayek called a framework of competing utopias. The blue states are building there. Utopia, you want to call it that. I don't even think they would call it that. But they were like, well, it's necessary in the name of equity. Nonsense. But nevertheless, they want to build their own society, let them. We're building our own. And the question is, let's look and see where people are migrating. And it turns out it's pretty obvious people are leaving the blue states and going to the red states.
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: The Left Is Obsessed With Power & Control
"I get the conversation is because of the COVID-19 debacle And just about everything they told us amber about this was true I was fake I mean we were right you know masks don't work The vax does not in fact protect you against getting a COVID infection natural immunity is a thing So although I don't agree with it I get it You know your thoughts on that conversation Yeah I tend to fall into your camp on this Dan I don't like the idea of surrendering You have the country or whatever portion of the country to a bunch of lunatics I don't think they deserve it And I feel like I love this country too much to just surrender portions of it to a bunch of crazy people and you're right The last isn't going to stop They're not going to say oh yeah you guys you take for states you want We'll see you later Yeah that's not how these people operate They are obsessed with power and they are obsessed with control The whole concept of people living peacefully in different areas just does not compute for them
Bitcoin Audible
Bitcoin: The Three Generations Theory by Aleks Svetski
"The three generations theory. How Bitcoin reaches mass adoption in 60 years. By Alexander's fetch whether bitcoiners like it or not, large scale Bitcoin adoption is not coming this decade or next. It's simply going to take a number of generations to filter into society. This is an opinion editorial by Alexander's fetch, author of the un communist manifesto, the Bitcoin times, and the viral and controversial remnant series and head of growth and strategy at lucent labs. Bitcoiners are notorious for their overestimation of how quickly Bitcoin is going to quote take over the world, and become quote widely adopted as money. I've sat squarely in that camp for a long time now. But I've come to think differently of late. Before you accuse me of giving up or call me a flake, I ask that you read on and reserve your opinion until the end. I like to think that I am maturing in how I view Bitcoin. Call it Temperance, patience, or a dose of humility, but I am trying to add some realism, or a lower time preference to the often overhyped perception of Bitcoin among some of us. But as you'll note, I think on a longer time scale, none of us are, quote, bullish enough. Hat tip to CK. Let's dive in. Bitcoin is a techno socioeconomic transformation. People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology. It's not just a smartphone or a computer or a social network or a new stock or security or a new payment method, or a search engine, or a messaging platform, or any other new product, app or service. Bitcoin is an entire techno socioeconomic transformation. It's a reinvention of money from the ground up, incompatible with any prior primitives. So it's not only orders of magnitude larger as a shift, but it's also completely different in a paradigmatic sense. These are massive benefits and massive hurdles.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black Unpacks Jimmy Carter's Presidential Legacy
"Back with our regular guests, one of your favorite lord Conrad black a man who has written a veritable library of books, including works on FDR on Nixon on president Trump. As such, lord black, let me ask you, we have the news of just the last day or so that president Carter, age 98, I believe, has been admitted to hospice. He may not be long for this world as a presidential historian. How will the historians of the future look to his presidency? Look, I would always, I would almost like to be as positive, especially with a man who is now clearly in the extreme December of his days. And I think on the positive side, he did produce the Camp David agreement for which I thought he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for that. I'm glad he got the Nobel Prize for peace eventually, but I thought he deserved it then. In 1978. But I think he I think he suffered from a form of indecision that compromised his. Effectiveness as a leader of the country. He tended this tendency to change direction. And we were going to deploy the neutron weapon and in Western Europe and then it was all agreed to. And then he changed his mind. And he was sending a strong naval squadron into the Indian Ocean and then it turned a 180°. We had an irrational fear of communism, and then after Afghanistan, he had learned a great deal, but communism. These are quotes. And when the energy crisis came upon us, he spoke of a malaise and appeared wearing a cardigan on television and advising people to turn the thermostats down. And he didn't I think he was a good man and a very intelligent man into this very slight degree I know. I know I'm a very interesting man and of course like all politicians are quite a charming person. But as a leader, I think he was not perceived as a strong leader and he was not particularly imaginative. He was studious and diligent and did his best and had his moments and was a good man. But I'm afraid he will not rank as an outstanding president. But
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
"camp " Discussed on Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
"Generosity has many faces, one of the most common requests I get is to offer a Buddhist boot camp smartphone app through which people can receive daily inspiration, a meditation timer, access to the podcast, blog, video clips, et cetera, but I don't know any app developers or programmers who are willing to donate their time and precious skill to create it. Do you? I trust it will happen when all of those elements come together. If you have good eyesight, for example, you can read to the blind or if you have a car, you can offer rides to the elderly so they can get to the grocery store and back. Couch surfing dot com was founded 15 years ago on the simple idea that almost everyone has a couch that sleeps alone in the dark every night. And that couch could be a bed for someone who is traveling the world on a budget for a night or two. I've had a wonderful experience as both a guest and a host to couch surfers from all over the world when I lived in Hawaii and at the base of Mount Whitney, the EC eras. In fact, just last month we hosted a couch surfer who is a firefighter in France who took a year and a half off from work to ride a bicycle from South America all the way to Canada. When we hosted him, he was already a year and three months into his journey, having clocked more than 20,000 miles on his bike and just needed a place to stay for the night, a warm shower, and to do his laundry. Why in the world would we say no to that? What I'm saying is that we need to change the way we think of generosity as a strictly financial transaction and see the numerous ways in which we can enrich the lives of others, doing that automatically enriches our own lives as well. One of the oldest Buddhist traditions is one of lay practitioners offering alms to the monks who spent all day in meditation in the mountains. The monks would come into the village with their bowls just once a day to receive whatever the townspeople had to offer. Sometimes only the white water saved after washing rice. At the monastery, even today our meal chant before eating anything includes the phrase we reflect on our virtue and whether we are worthy of this offering, because as monks, we must hold up our end of the deal, so to speak and stay committed to our practice, the lay practitioners in the town's benefited from the wisdom the monks shared, and the monks regarded their offering as good medicine to sustain life. As the prayer of Saint Francis of assisi goes, it's in giving that we receive in a truly believe it to be true. Start considering yourself generous and you will find many ways to make it so. Never think that the little you have to offer isn't enough for its fortune in the eyes of those who have none. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of faithfully religionless and Buddhist boot camp for additional information, please visit Buddhist boot camp dot com, where you can order autograph books to support the prison library project, watch timbers inspiring TED Talk and join our monthly mailing list. We hope you have enjoyed this episode and invite you to subscribe for more thought provoking discussions. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of love.
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"camp " Discussed on Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
"Inspirational quote offers mindfulness enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to, reinforcing what we intuitively already know, but has somehow forgotten. Following is the introduction from the book, along with a couple of sample chapters to give you a taste. Enjoy. To make a long story short, I sat there in front of the Tibetan Llama, wearing my maroon robes after years of studying Buddhism. With all due respect, I said, I don't believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get this complicated. My teacher looked around at all the statues of deities with multiple arms and he chuckled. He said, the Buddha didn't do this, that had been culture did. This is their way. Why don't you try zen? I think you would like it. So I bowed out of the temple, took off my robes, and moved into a zen monastery far from home. Zen was simpler that much was true, the walls were blank and I loved it. But the teachings were still filled with all the dogma that sent me running from religion in the first place. There are many incredible books out there that cover all aspects of religion, philosophy, psychology, and physics, but I was looking for something less academic, so to speak. I was looking for something inspirational that people today would not only have the attention span to read all the way through, but actually understand and also implement into their daily lives. I pictured a simple guide to being happy and in it just two words. Be grateful. That's because gratitude has a way of turning what we have into enough. And that is the basic idea behind Buddhist boot camp. The short chapters convey everything I've learned over the years in a way that is easy to understand without you needing to know anything about Buddhism ahead of time. In fact, the book is not so much about being a Buddhist. It's about being a Buddha. It is very possible and perfectly okay for someone who is Catholic, Muslim, atheist, or Jewish, for example, to still find the Buddhist teachings and inspirational. You can love Jesus, repeat a Hindu mantra and still go to temple after morning meditation. Buddhism is not a threat to any religion. It actually strengthens their existing faith by expanding your love to include all beings. Boot camp is a training method. And Buddhism is all about training the mind. Many people claim they don't have time to meditate every morning, but they still want a spiritual guidance without any dogma or rituals attached. That is exactly what Buddhist boot camp provides in a quick and easy to digest format. You are now a soldier of peace in the army of love. Welcome to Buddhist boot camp. The following is a sample chapter from Buddhist boot camp called love is the recognition of beauty. A flower doesn't stop being beautiful just because somebody walks by without noticing it, nor does it cease to be fragrant if it sent is taken for granted. The flower just continues to be its glorious self elegant, graceful and magnificent. Our mother nature has provided us with these immeasurably valuable teachers that blossom, despite their short lifespan, stars that continue to shine even if we fail to stare at them and trees that don't take it personally if we never bow down in gratitude for the oxygen they provide, we also have an incredible and unlimited capacity to love, but the question is, can we do it like a flower without needing to be admired adored or even noticed? Can we open our hearts completely to give, forgive, celebrate and joyfully live our lives without hesitation or any need for reciprocity? It seems like sometimes we go beyond taking things personally and are noticeably deflated when unappreciated. In fact, devastated we will to sorrow and then attempt to guard ourselves by withholding. We use all sorts of protections and defenses. We get hurt even angry if our boss fails to recognize an astonishing feat. If a lover pulls their hand away or when a friend forgets our birthday, can you imagine a flower copying an attitude for not being praised or the moon dimming its glow because we're too self absorbed to notice it more often? So make an effort to shine no matter what. To love unconditionally and to be a kind and gentle soul. Even when nobody is watching, and if you're so inclined, go ahead and hug the next tree that you see and say thank you. Everything has its beauty, but not everyone can see it. A quote by Confucius. Here is another sample chapter from Buddhist boot camp. This one is called what a healthy relationship looks like. Relationships are often misunderstood to be a simple commitment between two people. A dedication to each other with a sense of belonging to one another. Unfortunately, that kind of limited perspective breeds expectations possessiveness and disappointment, and it reeks of ownership greed ignorance and selfish desire. A healthy relationship is an agreement between two people to support each other's spiritual practice. It is a vow to encourage each other's dedication, devotion, and path, free from attachment or expectations, get full of caring and compassion. A healthy relationship is based on unconditional love, not one where you need is to possess. Although you put plenty of heart into it, you lose absolutely nothing by giving it away. If each person is equally dedicated to inspire, create awaken and enrich the lives of others, then there is no hidden agenda. It is far less important when one receives from the other as what one can give. Intimacy would suddenly surpass warmth and tenderness to also include patients, vulnerability, honesty, active listening, understanding, connection, and unwavering trust. There is a healing power inherent in this kind of union, and it is capable of a deep transformation for both people. It is an incredible opportunity to actually practice what we learn from nonviolent communication to meditation, listening, mirroring, authenticity, resolve, radical honesty, appreciation, purpose, equality, celebration, and mutuality. A healthy relationship is a collaboration of sorts, two peaceful warriors, spiritually supporting one another on their individual journeys to spread positivity and light. May we all close the gap between what we believe and how we act in the world. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking artwork together in the same direction. A quote by Antoine de saint exupery. If you enjoyed this book, please share it with a friend and join our Buddhist boot camp online community on Facebook and on Instagram. Aloha. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of faithfully religionless and Buddhist boot camp for additional information, please visit Buddhist boot camp dot com where you can order autographed books to support the person library project, watch timbers inspiring TED Talk and join our monthly mailing list. We hope you have enjoyed this episode and invite you to subscribe for more thought provoking discussions. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of fluff.
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"In this podcast episode, I want to share with you a chapter from Buddhist boot camp called life is a piece of cake. During the book tour across the U.S., UK and Australia, people kept telling me this is one of their favorite chapters. These podcast episodes are available without commercials, thanks to the generosity of listeners just like you who show their support with automatic $1 contributions each month through Patreon dot com slash Buddhist boot camp. Join me on Patreon for our monthly live video Q&A sessions during which folks from all over the world to an end to ask questions and discuss ways to implement some of the more challenging concepts discussed in Buddhist boot camp and faithfully religionless enter their daily lives. Sign up for my monthly blog at Buddhist boot camp dot com to be notified of upcoming live events, video Q&A's updates and food for thought. Speaking of food, when a friend recently asked me if there is anything I would change about my life. I instinctively said, absolutely not. I mean, I am more content than I've ever been and happier than I ever thought would be possible. He said, well, surely you would like to have more money, a bigger house, or something. And I said, no, I'm already happy. Who knows what more money would do to my life? A bigger house would just be more to clean. What's that responsibility? You see, I moved from Israel to the states when I was 14 years old. And I thought this was going to be the land of opportunity and abundance where everyone was going to be happy. And yes, this is the land of opportunity and abundance, but many people aren't happy that keep wanting more and adding more to their lives. It's just never enough. So I saw it like this. If life is a cake recipe that we are trying to perfect, then I got my recipe down just right for now. With the ideal amount of flour, sugar, baking soda, et cetera, more sugar, for example, does not necessarily make a better cake. In fact, it might ruin it. So if you're not happy with your life, figure out which ingredients make it better and take them out. Don't believe commercials that tell you to spread more frosting on top of the cake. Because then you would simply wind up with a bitter cake that has frosting on it. I hear people say things like, if I just go on vacation to Hawaii, then life would be better. The problem is that when you return home from the islands or in other words, when you're done licking the frosting, your bitter cake will still be there waiting for you. But and this is the really good part. If you get the ingredients just right, then your life is awesome. With or without frosting. Anything fun you do on top of that is, well, icing on the cake. We all get to try a new recipe every morning, especially if we live our lives to the fullest. So even if your cake ends up bitter one day, that's okay. Make it differently tomorrow. Just never blame other people if your cake doesn't turn out. Each bake our own cake. Here's a secret. While everyone's recipe is a little different. The main ingredient for a successful batter, our love, gratitude, kindness, and patience. And the most common ingredient that makes people's cake bitter is fear, so don't use it. When something unexpected happens in your life, just yell out. Plot twist, and then keep going. Happy baking, everybody. Aloha..
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
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"Let's begin this podcast with the backstory of Buddhist boot camp and how it came to be. Over ten years ago, when I left the corporate world and moved to Hawaii, I started emailing my Friends every month to let them know what's going on in my life, about 8 years later, my friend Kim suggested that I share those emails with the world because she found the letters inspirational, and she figured other people would benefit from reading them as well. That's how the emails became a blog and the blog became the book. That is now a Buddhist boot camp. It turns out that Kim was right. People all over the world have found the message in Buddhist boot camp refreshing inspirational. And more importantly, motivational. I think motivation is a lot more important because inspiration without action is just entertainment and my invitation is for us to go beyond thinking that something is a good idea to actually implementing it into our daily lives. What I love about Buddhism is that it isn't a religion. There is no creator theory nor a story about the beginning or the end of times. It also doesn't require other beliefs to be wrong, but rather strengthens your existing faith, whatever it may be. Buddhism is all about training the mind. And boot camp is an ideal training method that compresses a lot of information into a shorter period of time without losing any of its integrity. You don't need to be a Buddhist to find the Buddha's teachings motivational. As the Dalai Lama says, don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Just use it to be a better whatever you already are. So whether it's Mother Teresa's acts of charity, Gandhi's perseverance or even your aunt Betty's calm demeanor. As long as you're motivated to be better today than you were yesterday, then it doesn't matter who inspires you. Buddhism is not just about meditating. It's about rolling up your sleeves to relieve some of the suffering in the world, both within and around us. After years of studying Buddhism, I remember sitting there in my maroon robes in front of the Tibetan Llama, and I said, with all due respect, I don't believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get this complicated. My teacher looked around at all the statues of deities with multiple arms and he himself chuckled. He said, the Buddha didn't do this. The Tibetan culture did. This is their way. Why don't you try zen? I think you'd like it. And so I bowed out of the temple. I took off my robes and I moved into a zen monastery far from home. Zen was simpler. That much was true. The walls were blank, and I loved it. But the teachings were still filled with all the dogma that sent me running from religion in the first place. There are many incredible books out there that cover all aspects of religion, philosophy, psychology, and physics, but I was looking for something less academic, so to speak. I was looking for something inspirational that people today would not only have the attention span to read all the way through. But actually understand and implement into their daily lives. I actually pictured a simple guide to being happy and in it just two words. Be grateful. And that's because gratitude has a way of turning what we have into enough. And that is the basic idea behind Buddhist boot camp. It's not about being Buddhist at all. It's about being Buddha like or Christ like or whoever inspires you, like, because you see your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does. So it's totally fine if you love Jesus and repeat a Hindu mantra. Still go to temple after your morning meditation. In fact, my altar at home has the Buddha on it. Jesus and Saint Francis of.
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"A friend recently told me she was feeling emotionally unstable. And many who battled depression or anxiety, for example, feel mentally unstable from time to time. I have personally experienced spiritual instability, which I wouldn't say was as severe as completely losing faith. It was more like walking on rocky terrain barefooted. And I suspect we've all experienced the difference between being in a stable relationship and being in one that is fragile, like thin ice prone to cracking under pressure. When we know something can easily tip over, we take precautionary measures to support it with a stronger foundation so it doesn't fall. The key is not to wait until it's too late. In order to stay ahead of it, we need to perform regular system checkups, so to speak, and look for what is wobbly instead of waiting for it to be completely off the rails. When it comes to our health, for example, it is significantly more reasonable to maintain it than it is to try to regain it. Similar to keeping the house in order by cleaning as you go, instead of making a huge mess and then having to devote an entire afternoon or day to deep clean, which can be overwhelming or worse yet, never get done. Stability is not something you find one day, and keep forever. Stable health, emotions, practice, and faith must be maintained, like car maintenance on a regular basis. The farther you go, the more frequently you need to refuel, change the oil and check the tire pressure. So if it's a stable life you want, it's imperative to do a multi point checkup, and to do it multiple times a day. We check our cell phones more frequently than we check our attitudes, or our preconditioned responses to the world around us, and our emotional baggage. Heck, even airlines charge you extra for carrying too much. If our life was indeed a car, we need to do more than wash the exterior to appear like we have it all together. While we fall apart on the inside, we need to pause and reflect for a few seconds as soon as we wake up, for example. So we don't start taking that for granted. Pause when you brush your teeth and pause before every meal, not to say grace necessarily, but to look at what you're about to consume to determine whether it will contribute to your stability or instability. If you've ever driven a car where the wheels haven't been properly rotated and balanced, you know how firmly you have to grip that steering wheel to stay in your lane. Life doesn't have to be such a struggle, cleaning doesn't have to take all day. And emotional stability isn't magically regained over a two week vacation after a year of stress. What I'm saying is we either actively create the balance we seek, or we are creating the imbalance we try to escape. At one of the temples where I used to live, we all said itadakimasu before eating. It's a Japanese word, meaning I humbly receive, which is just enough of a pause to reflect on all the people who made the meal in front of you possible, and all the conditions that perfectly aligned to create that moment. It's one way to avoid the trap of entitlement, which we discussed in the last episode, and to stay appreciative. After all, it's not happy people who are grateful. It's grateful people who are happy. So introduce a stability inducing practice into your day. And for your own sake, don't ignore the warning signs that go off when something is out of balance. Restore and maintain the peace immediately because in all out war takes more resources than we often have, creating a vicious loop of conflict with no resolution. Find a mantra, a practice, or commitment to something greater than yourself and watch life become significantly easier to manage when you're stable with both feet on the ground. We are in the beginning stages of scheduling a third book tour, and I can only go where I'm invited. So if you have a venue that can host a book talk discussion and Q&A in your community. Contact my publicist at Buddhist boot camp dot com with information about the space and we will try to honor all requests. Initially across the U.S., UK, Australia, and beyond. Like everything else with Buddhist boot camp, you make it possible by staying involved. Otherwise I would just be speaking to myself. The monthly email a couple weeks ago was shared by so many of you that thousands of new subscribers signed up for it overnight. I didn't do that. You did. So thank you for sharing the online posts with your tribe, commenting on the YouTube videos, which makes them more likely to show up for others in search results and telling people about the books and the podcast. If the message enriches your life as much as it has mine, don't keep it to yourself. And if you find value in what I do, please show your support with as little as $1 a month through Patreon dot com slash Buddhist boot camp. Most of my speaking engagements are at unity churches, Unitarian universalist fellowships, yoga studios, schools, universities, libraries, and so on. If you have a space over know someone who does, reach out and I will see you in person very soon. Thank you. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of faithfully religionless and Buddhist boot camp, for additional information, please visit Buddhist boot camp dot com, where you can order autograph books to support the prison library project, watch timbers inspiring TED Talk and join our monthly mailing list. We hope you have enjoyed this episode and invite you to subscribe for more thought provoking discussions. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of love.
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"In the next few minutes, by the time I finish recording this, I may end up taking back something that I've been saying for many years. And firmly stood by that I don't miss people, places or things. Allow me to explain why that has been my truth for so long, and how I'm working on reconciling something I've recently noticed that might negate my previous point of view. The word missing implies that something is, well, missing. That something is not whole or complete, because it lacks a missing component. It's a mindset of deficiency, insufficiency, deficit, or scarcity, perhaps you can already understand why after years of centering my attention on the abundance in life on being grateful for what's available rather than focusing on what isn't. I've essentially trained myself to not only see every moment and circumstance as a whole and complete, but to honor it as such. Every second of each day is a gift friendships and relationships are to be treasured while they last, health, youth, everything is so temporary, but that briefest of moments is everything. To think of what's lacking or even entertain comparing a moment to some ideal version of it, we have in our heads or a memory of something from the past is to take the present moment for granted. In fact, to not be in it at all. So when people ask me if I miss a good friend or relative who has passed away, for example, or even if I miss Hawaii after living there for ten years, my answer is always the same. I think of it fondly, and I have great memories, but I refuse to say my current life is incomplete without it or somehow sub par without someone in it. Doing so would be dismissive of the gifts in my life today. And I believe taking things for granted is our greatest downfall. So I focus on what and who is in my life in a celebrate each breath rather than spend a moment entertaining the idea that my life is somehow incomplete. We believe whatever we tell ourselves and life would be a real downer if we start believing that it's missing something. I'm not cold or insensitive about it. I've just gotten really good at shifting my perspective toward what's in front of me rather than what's behind. It took some practice of catching myself every time I compared any moment to how much better I thought it could be and just enjoy it for what it is. I love my dad, sure, but do I miss him? No. I see the blessing of having had one in the first place. I would feel like I'm being extremely ungrateful if I wish for things to be any different. Like being given an inch and then wanting a mile, if that makes sense. Be grateful for what you have and you'll have plenty of it. That's been my mantra for a few years. Now that I've rationalized it, I'm going to try to take a counter stance and explain what I've recently noticed and admittedly I've even tried to deny. Moving away from the last town I was in to where I am now, has been an interesting mixture of being in a place that is blissfully rural, close to the mountains and the ocean in a mostly quiet and devoid of stimulation environment, which for me is ideal. It's much colder than I can handle with a smile on my face since wearing multiple layers or staying indoors with a heat turned on feels extremely confining to me and I'm a bird that does not thrive in a cage. But if I'm really honest with myself, I don't think the cold weather here has been my biggest challenge. You know how some bathrooms have a light bar above the mirror with multiple lightbulbs when people fill each socket with a hundred watt bulb. The bathroom is way too bright, almost blinding. But when there's only one lightbulb burning at 40 watts and all the rest of them are burnt out, then good luck finding a contact lens should one fall out of your hand. I don't have fancy lighting in my bathroom, but in life, I have managed to create the ideal balance of time spent indoors and outdoors eating healthy without obsessing over it, not having too many acquaintances or not enough friends, making God a big part of my life, but not so big at alienates people. In other words, just the right amount of light. In bathroom lightbulb terminology, let's just say I've gotten good at having every other lightbulb on this trip turned on, which is perfect. Sometimes when you have such lighting in your bathroom or somewhere in your home and one of the bulbs goes out, you don't notice it right away. You just figure it's late at night that you have a sleep. Maybe things just seem dimmer because you're in a dream state until one day you finally realize that one of the lightbulbs that used to shine just enough light to balance things out is no longer shining, and you don't realize it right away, but it makes a huge difference in how well you can see the world. This perhaps isn't the greatest metaphor, but I now realize that my biggest obstacle living here hasn't been the weather, it's that I moved away from a friend who was a very important source of light in my life. So the question I ask myself is, do I miss her? Is that what people mean when they say they miss someone? Would I still miss Syria if I found another source of light? Maybe all I need to do is get better at shifting my focus. Keep in mind there is no conclusion to this line of inquiry I truly don't know. I just realized that there's perhaps the possibility of simultaneously being extremely grateful for the gifts in my life, joyous, and even dare I say complete while still missing someone or something. It doesn't make sense technically or linguistically, but I'm going to stop saying I don't miss because maybe I do and just haven't found the words with which to express it yet. I've been so adamant that life is not about the glass being half full or half empty. It's about being grateful to have a glass in the first place, but maybe it's not an either or situation, but the coexistence of all those perspectives at once, like life, the glass is half full of water, half full of air, half empty of water, half empty of air, and a complete glass just the same full of possibilities. The first principle of Buddhist boot camp is that the opposite of what you know is also true. So it should come at no surprise that what I thought I knew is true, the opposite is as well. When I say it's safe to trust those who search for the truth, but be wary of those who claim to have found it, be wary of yourself as well if you cling to your truth too tightly. Something might happen one day to show you it wasn't the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It was just one side of it and they are many. May we all live in peace with not knowing. The only thing I know for certain is that I don't know anything for certain. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of faithfully religionless and Buddhist boot camp for additional information, please visit Buddhist boot camp dot com, where you can order autograph books to support the prison library project, watch timbers inspiring TED Talk and join our monthly mailing list. We hope you have enjoyed this episode and invite you to subscribe for more thought provoking discussions. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of love.
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"After my last monthly email, which I also published as the previous podcast episode, I hosted a live video Q&A, so Buddhist boot camp breeders and podcast listeners can tune in from all over the world to ask questions. And further discuss the topic of understanding hatred, which is only possible by first being honest enough to confront the hatred that is within each of us. The problem is our ego disguises our own hatred and justifies it as us simply being right while anyone with an opposing opinion or belief is wrong. Israelis hate Palestinians who hate them in return. The people on the left hate the guy in the Oval Office while the people on the right want him reelected, racist hate blacks and homophobes hate gays who hate them in return for so doing. It's a vicious cycle Gandhi described as an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. One listener used the perfect example of peace activists fighting to prove they are peace activists. The thing is, we weren't born hateful. Our parents, teachers, preachers, Friends, society, and the media have trained us to segregate over the years. Ultimately leading to a huge divide between us and them, making segregation, the root of hatred, though it is subtly disguised as merely convenient or even necessary. Perhaps the most beautiful outcome from the online discussion were comments by listeners who said, it's hard when you perceive that others are filled with hate, but now I see they may feel the same about me. And that's when another listener admitted that talking about conflict between other people is a lot easier than facing the conflict within herself. But change comes from within, someone else said, and you can't change someone else anyway. What you feed becomes stronger, so one solution to overcoming the impulse to hate or reject that which we don't understand is to respond to it by saying that's interesting, not just to other people's comments and remarks about what they believe, but to our own thoughts. One listener said that when he sees something as unacceptable in someone else, it actually mirrors for him what it is unacceptable in himself. It helps him on his journey from conditional love to unconditional love. So whenever he feels defensive, he uses that feeling as a flag that his fear and ego is defending itself because it has been triggered to fight. One listener solution was to stay away from those who think they are right. I just don't know how that's possible. I'm surrounded by people who think they are right. I just listen to them and think to myself, that's interesting. Without feeding the ego's desire to correct or educate them because that would imply that they are wrong and I am right and it's my job to fix it so everyone agrees with me. But when it came to the big question of the hour, of whether there is a difference between the hatred and neo Nazi feels towards the black gay men or the hatred he feels towards the neo Nazi, there's absolutely no difference. Both sides are scared that the rights, freedoms, values, and everything they hold dear will be compromised by the other, and both sides will go to extreme lengths to defend their beliefs, even violence. My friend Mary Ann, who recently moved from a conservative state to a liberal one with such different beliefs, said the move has been very interesting as she recognizes hatred on both sides. The key therefore is to recognize hatred as what it is, a defense against something that is threatening our egos. In the same way we often confuse a bruised ego with a broken heart, we also defend ourselves when the ego perceives other people's general opinion as a personal attack when it isn't. If we want peace, it has to start with us being peaceful. Someone may say something against my race and I don't need to take it personally, attack back or even defend it. I walk away from that experience reminded that people will always hate what they don't understand. But that doesn't mean I have to act hatefully towards anyone, regardless of how I try to justify it. Because my beliefs don't make me a better person, my behavior does, to be a kind, peaceful people, we must actually be kind and peaceful, not just toward those who agree with us, but toward everyone. What they believe or do says everything we need to know about them, how we respond says everything about us. At the monastery, we used a chant, greed, hatred, and ignorance rise endlessly, I vow to abandon them. We acknowledge that the battle with greed, hatred, and ignorance isn't a battle that we're going to win once and for all. It is a battle that we're going to win time and time again. If you want to know when the next live Q&A will be, sign up to receive just one email a month for me on the first of each month at Buddhist boot camp dot com by clicking on the contact tab. And while you're on the site, remember that each time you get an autographed copy of Buddhist boot camp or faithfully religionless, another copy is donated to the prison library project on your behalf. You can also watch plant based recipe videos, get stickers, shirts, even pop sockets, proceeds from which also support the cystic fibrosis foundation and mercy for animals. These podcast episodes, the live Q&A videos, monthly emails, daily posts, and in person events are all made possible because listeners just like you donate just $1 a month through Patreon dot com slash Buddhist boot camp. That's Patreon dot com slash Buddhist boot camp. You are making the message available to people all over the world without even knowing it. Every time you share a link on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or forward my emails to your friends, family, or post them online. The book isn't mine. It's ours. So thank you for walking beside me on this journey. I appreciate you. Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of faithfully religionless and Buddhist boot camp for additional information, please visit Buddhist boot camp dot com where you can order autographed books to support the prison library project. Watch timbers inspiring TED Talk and join our monthly mailing list. We hope you have enjoyed this episode and invite you to subscribe for more thought provoking discussions. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of love.
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"Podcast listeners I have some exciting news. My new book was just released and I will be on a book tour starting September 2022. First, across the U.S., then Australia, and maybe the UK and Canada after that. The book is called the opposite of namaste, and it is available wherever books and ebooks are sold. It is a curated collection of these podcast episodes in one spot and in a similar format to Buddhist boot camp, where each chapter is only a couple of pages long, and you can read them in any order. The book tour details will be updated regularly on Buddhist boot camp dot com, so check it frequently and we'll meet each other soon. I'm not sure I will have the space to record new episodes as frequently once I'm on the road, but I will continue sending you food for thought by email on the first day of each month. So be sure to subscribe at Buddhist boot camp dot com slash email. This intro will be removed from the podcast episodes once I return, enjoy the new book, and I will see you soon. Welcome to the Buddhist boot camp podcast. Our intention is to awaken enlighten and enrich and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, timber Hawkeye. Let's begin this podcast with the backstory of Buddhist boot camp and how it came to be. Over ten years ago, when I left the corporate world and moved to Hawaii, I started emailing my Friends every month to let them know what's going on in my life, about 8 years later, my friend Kim suggested that I share those emails with the world because she found the letters inspirational, and she figured other people would benefit from reading them as well. That's how the emails became a blog and the blog became the book that is now Buddhist boot camp. It turns out that Kim was right. People all over the world have found the message in Buddhist boot camp refreshing inspirational. And more importantly, motivational. I think motivation is a lot more important because inspiration without action is just entertainment. And my invitation is for us to go beyond thinking that something is a good idea to actually implementing it into our daily lives. What I love about Buddhism is that it isn't a religion. There is no creator theory, nor a story about the beginning or the end of times. It also doesn't require other beliefs to be wrong, but rather strengthens your existing faith, whatever it may be. Buddhism is all about training the mind and boot camp is an ideal training method that compresses a lot of information into a shorter period of time without losing any of its integrity. You don't need to be a Buddhist to find the Buddha's teachings motivational. As the Dalai Lama says, don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Just use it to be a better whatever you already are. So whether it's Mother Teresa's acts of charity, Gandhi's perseverance or even your aunt Betty's calm demeanor. As long as your motivated to be better today than you were yesterday, then it doesn't matter who inspires you. Buddhism is not just about meditating. It's about rolling up your sleeves to relieve some of the suffering in the world, both within and around us. After years of studying Buddhism, I remember sitting there in my maroon robes in front of the Tibetan Llama, and I said, with all due respect, I don't believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get this complicated. My teacher looked around at all the statues of deities with multiple arms and he himself chuckled. He said, the Buddha didn't do this. The Tibetan culture did. This is their way. Why don't you try zen? I think you'd like it. And so I bowed out of the temple. I took off my robes and I moved into a zen monastery far from home. Zen was simpler. That much was true. The walls were blank and I loved it. But the teachings were still filled with all the dogma that sent me running from religion in the first place. There are many incredible books out there that cover all aspects of religion, philosophy, psychology, and physics, but I was looking for something less academic, so to speak. I was looking for something inspirational that people today would not only have the attention span to read all the way through. But actually understand and implement into their daily lives. I actually pictured a simple guide to being happy and in it just two words. Be grateful. And that's because gratitude has a way of turning what we have into enough. And that is the basic idea behind Buddhist boot camp. It's not about being Buddhist at all. It's about being Buddha like or Christ like or whoever inspires you like because you see your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does. So it's totally fine if you love Jesus and repeat a Hindu mantra. Still go to temple after your morning meditation. In fact, my altar at home has the Buddha on it. Jesus and Saint Francis of.
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"Not so far to walk between gates for one impossible to get lost in and not so many tunnels like james.
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"And trying to forget that the nightmare had ever been dreamed but had it has and it goes on being dragged in the darkness underground of what was once the rocky mountain arsenal. Not many rumors ever escaped the arsenal. The place was designed to prevent such things but one of the few and the most persistent was of a figure who haunted the whole complex. Some said he was the victim of an accident or an experiment that was later covered up. Maybe he was just a manifestation of collective guilty conscience whatever it was or whatever he is the encounter would go like this a soldier on sentry duty or a technician working late at night with glimpse someone in a long tan coat an old fashioned fedora style hat moving in some high security tightly restricted area. They would call out and approach. Stranger would walk or run away. The pursuit would go on and on and if the soldier or the technician was unlucky enough to catch up with a stranger. Well well there's some recent stories from here in the airport that seemed to lead back to that old one. I figured just like that is said to appear here in these terminals from time to time people who know the airport called this man this thing the traveler but i think there's a link between the traveler stories and whatever it was haunted tunnels the old arsenal and you know when they chose this site for the denver international airport back in the mid eighties. There were whispers of some secret connection to the rocky mountain arsenal. Otherwise why bill. The airport so far away from the city when they were better sites available much closer to downtown but all the other proposed locations were rejected in favor of this one thirty miles from downtown denver and right next to the arsenal but just as the airport was being constructed just as the speculation about a connection between.
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"The park.
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"Hand. And roger bolted past dashing further down the path greens light night dark flashed and twirling light and the color of flowers and a of brown might have been a tree trunk but seemed in the crazy light to be moving quickly right toward us. Run roger rasping choke shot. Whisper run and iran. Which way would you have followed. The blind sounds of roger dashing into darkness ahead. Would you have stumbled back toward the street. Way we'd come leave a review with your choice of action. If you're using a service that allows reviews or email your choice to podcasts at rei dot com. Thank you for all the responses we've received so far. You really are shaping. The story thanks again. The yeti for sponsoring season three of the camp monsters podcast with full season episodes. Starting this september. Who knows maybe rogers running further down that dark path. Because there's an rei down there fully stocked with the latest yeti coolers and camp chairs and cousy what great stuff. No wonder he's running so fast. Thanks for listening and be sure to join us next month for the last installment this story and our final mini episode before another full season begins in september. So you again soon around the campfire..
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"Into the woods where they'd suffered their initial encounters with wild man. I'm far from being an outdoorsman himself. The doctor managed to get separated from the group and briefly lost in the woods. And we didn't go into any detail. He wrote that in the brief time that he was lost he experienced something that gave him a first hand appreciation of the tear that his patients lived with after that according to roger their crept into the doctor's account accounta- different kind of empathy for these patients. The doctor began to suggest that perhaps there was some truth behind the phenomena that they continued to see experience versus empathy was presented as merely another attempt treatment just an experiment in humoring. The patient's delusions in order to defuse them but as he account continued. The doctor admitted he could no longer bring himself to exclude the possibility that some of the things is patients described might have a basis in reality. He began to hesitantly. Put forward the idea that perhaps there was something more than mere delusion behind their experiences may even be some kind of real creature responsible but one that only certain people could see the doctor theorized that if there were such a creature perhaps the ability to see. It might somehow be contagious that the special kind of vision was something that the men had caught from the woods or from one another and might be something that they were capable of spreading. Finally doctor admitted that he himself was afraid he'd fallen victim to this contagion and in the became increasingly unpolished in erotic began to describe the things that he saw on sensed strange scratches. Faint footprints are on the doors of his home. An office a figure following him that would slip around a corner and disappear when he doubled back. A horrible face caught glimpse of peering into his window. One night i was about to gently. Poke a few holes in rogers retelling of the old doctors story when roger did it for me. It's all ridiculous. Of course some doctors starts to share illness with his patients and then writes about. It doesn't prove anything except the fragility of the human mind. And that's he said stopping looking right at me for the first time since we'd left the shop. That's just what we are going to prove tonight. You looked at me with eyes wide with desperate and continued quietly slow emphasis. I'm going to show you something. It isn't there and you won't see anything and then i'll know for certain what must be true that none of it's real not the doctor story or mind that none of it has ever been real. What can i say that. I look back into his eyes and nodded my head and said okay or something. We were stopped beside a wooden door and a tall brick wall mask the space between two stately old apartment buildings to wings in the same building. They were probably only six or seven stories tall but their bulk disappeared at the foggy. Infinity above us pierced here and there with yellow light from distant windows that seem to float unsupported. Roger produced a small flashlight from his pocket and a key rattled key in the door and opened. It opened it. Onto one of the many little miracles than hide among the never halting ever-changing hustle of san francisco. It was a garden in impossible garden at filled. The long narrow space with thick foliage the color of flowers exploded in a little light. That roger hell does. He flashed it ahead of him to help find his way down the narrow path that snaked through the gardens middle as soon as i stepped through the gate the buildings on either side disappeared. I mean if a thick bushes and drooping trees on either side hit them from view but in truth. If i hadn't seen them. I would have sworn it was impossible that they were there. The garden was a world apart. Even the air felt different. The greasy bay fog transformed into a soft forest. Missed my apartment's just at the end of this courtyard. Roger said voice barely above a whisper garden. Wonderful always thought so until lately. See i've been having some well. We'll see and with that. He moved on long down the path. We walked for what seemed to long distance not far but further than courtyard or alley had any right to run here in the middle of one of the densest cities on the west coast. Once we passed a little door in the side of one of the brick buildings a red door with single. Low watt bulb hanging above it. We saw it through a screen of branches and it seemed to be far off at the end of different winding fork with the trail. Those probably only twenty feet away a little further on. Would the door gone and forgotten behind us. Roger stopped suddenly in the middle of the path. He stopped and throughout his arms. As far as the thick bushes around the trail would allow as if to keep me from shoving past him looking down at the ground pointing his light at a particular spot and as he felt me. Step up quietly beside him. He brought his arms in and bent lower and lower shining light. Back and forth across a patch dirt. There he whispered and pointed again of the ground little flashlight and then he gave the light to me now. Please tell me that there isn't there and i'll tell you.
Camp Hell: Anneewakee
"camp " Discussed on Camp Hell: Anneewakee
"The physical labor was forced upon the girls at the rock mark campus. Just as it was the boys in douglasville caravel. A new campus had to be built. the rest of our day after breakfast we would work from probably eight thirty or nine until eleven thirty. I believe and we did various projects and all of them were very physical. Sometimes we would work on landscaping projects working with heavy wheelbarrows rakes shovels digging holes post hole. Diggers the hardest project. That i remember doing my first summer. We were building a campsite at the top of a very high ridge. We were hauling two by fours and a frames and shingles and bags of mortar and cement so at age fifteen they would have us bend over and they would put a bag of mortar on our back which weighed forty six pounds or a bag of cement on our back which weighed ninety four pounds and we were to hold and carry that bad of mortar or cement bent over up a mountain in order to make the footings for the cabins. The girls in my particular group were fourteen and fifteen years old. Maybe succeed years old. And i can't imagine how hard it must have been for the girls that were twelve and thirteen and this was the middle of the summer in a terrible heat wave and even though we were in the mountains it was very very hot temperatures well into the nineties sometimes up to a hundred girls were getting heat exhaustion and heatstroke and they would discourage us from sitting down and taking a break and drinking water. They would give us very very short breaks. We were not allowed to sit down and start working.
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"camp " Discussed on Distractible
"Sized buildings. How much does that trump no hang on. Shut up but The the falcon nine. How heavy how right mark. Yeah okay falcon nine ways like five hundred fifty thousand kilograms which was like you know five or fifty tonnes in metric it on air. They can do a lot of stretches for science but king kong does not one hundred and thirty tonnes like. have you ever considered. Maybe they fed. King kong a bunch of helium. Make them lighter before they lifted. I didn't aunt. Did they shave off his for his. You know damp a monkey for be pretty heavy. No they didn't and they just took him out of the ocean so it would have been very damp. The smell alone must've been horror of home helicopters. Blow down so there would have been pushed down not city of people. That's more likely assuming he was unconscious that he was participating in an airlift. But i like the vision of a king kong suspended by a bunch of ropes like a big puppet flying over a city hurling bust size turds all around the city as easy to be transported over wherever tokyo or wherever this took place. It's usually japan. What are we to go. Would you see this giant turds. The government officials on tv like. Yes yes we know about the giant hers situation. Stay inside been eating a lot of soft foods so it should be pretty squishy as it's just a matter of cleaning up as long as you don't get a direct hit. We really need him to go. Fight the giant lizard monster. Okay imagine if you aren't killed right away imagine if you have to suffocate. It's like an avalanche was just a huge shit like buried twenty feet under just lay there unable to move like swimming affirm stool a loose still might be scarier. Even i don't know either way not good and then but i'm more outraged at the incorrect science than anything. I'm backing the weird whale. 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Distractible
"camp " Discussed on Distractible
"I'm wade barnes. Joined today by marc fischbach alone. All right how are you good. You sound great. Thank you and Bob my skin's as well bob. I appreciate the semi whole name. Yeah you're welcome more if you want your full five name name and myself security. Tell my mother's maiden name your grew up on first pet's name skit it all out there enough for a long time but i know very little actually about you now i think about it like i don't know your mom's maiden name how you know what we should do. We should actually do. There's thirty six questions that are like scientifically proven to make people fall in love with each other and we should do that. We should fall in love with each other. No just do the questions. They are very good for getting to know people questions you know. We should get to know each other. What's your favorite color. What's your credit card number. Those don't seem like associated questions would okay. No no one they logically follow. You just have to pay close attention to the between the lines anyway. We're going to move on immediately before people think about that. What what are we doing today. I'm hosting an episode about credit actual voice crack today. No that was that was staged practice. I'm sorry was the topic host. Who definitely knows. Oh it's a camping traveling Doing stuff outdoors the old vacation. Anything and everything to do with that style. Okay question a lot of stuff. Do we have to be the ones that are doing the stuff in the woods. Obviously what does that mean all. It was like someone that i knew that did these things that i'm about to say and it wasn't me at all. Are they illegal. Where are we talking about in the woods. I think is what you just said a story about you murdering someone and trying to get away. No one said murder. I mean i. I was thinking sex. I've murdered to was my mom the converter to Know anything goes bonus points for having that question. Oh i got questions you questions. I got question giving out bonus points. Yeah how long is both your legs together. And why do i need to know that you don't get to know the answer to that one question. How long legs together. When is the next time you're going to bring chicken wings to my house. Because i miss when you used to do that i did. I do differently just door them. That's fine just once a day I mean i guess by getting reimbursed or is this just doing out of the of my wallet kindness of your heart. You a whole of friend. All right well mark. You do it for me. I'll do it for bob. And i'm not good friend. I take back those bonus points. How many points do i get for. Awesome questions and how long are both likes together. I'm actually curious. I'm gonna say d- Twelve points which is a good amount of wings to eat but not enough for me wouldn't decent amount for hello should go. I got one more question for you. Boy you wanna go camping. I cautiously saying yes. Excellent feels like a mistake. I think so too but curiosity gets the best of me some time one of your cat. Oh gee sway yourself into this time. So i'm sorry. Did you say that loud and think to yourself. Right paused for the enormous laugh. A second someone. It'll come come keeping. Oh take back your points to give you some. Now take him away. That's seems good. Judge real listen real it. Come on come on yet so all right you little friends of mine We're gonna talk about camping. Do you all have your stories and tales and friend stories friend of a friend stories. That tell yeah you know we do. You know it. I get bonus points. If i'm in my own story because it actually happened in it's not made up baloney. You don't know what. I did in the woods on june twenty. Second of two thousand eleven. You're right. I don't know i feel compelled to give you bonus points because you asked for him so sure me no baba's he said police are storing. Fuck you man. You didn't ask me for bonus points. Can i have boys. guess okay. How many. I reserve that knowledge till the end. When i decide who. I want to win. Would this get on with it in the mouth. Murray never would take a deep breath. And then i don't know tell me the titles of your story or whatever home in i breathed in. That's just not as audible. Fine tell me the title game. News story great. That was solid guys high. Fives all around. anyway. I'm a read my title. Now yeah please for everyone listening at home we do this professionally. The title of my My story is the day the beat mine but mine. Kyw my kinda hangs with that. My story is entitled out of the river river it into the. That's pretty good okay. I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty good. Both pretty good but A sucker for swallow mark so you can go to hell. How many points. I give for that. No no no no. No no no no. You're not signed whenever you started begging. It really made me not want to give any. So how do i get or yes our or points anyway okay. So.
Camp Hell: Anneewakee
"camp " Discussed on Camp Hell: Anneewakee
"By the mid nineteen seventies and awake. He had established itself as a successful program. Troubled youth in georgia the center had secured its medical license which allowed the collection of third party payments from insurance companies and was now having patients referred there from the court system as well as other learning centers lewis petr supposedly restricted for making contact with any patients was still keeping his office on campus grounds. Any oversight at the time had slip through the cracks of state government and the roman patients at was growing exponentially. Carl moore was one of these patients. He was admitted in one thousand. Nine hundred seventy seven. After seeing the result of his brothers reform their carl's family had a particular connection to enter wakey. his mother was involved in number of schools in atlanta. That would often refer children to the program in douglasville anyway keys. Reputation had put the program at the top of the list for educators to send children who were beyond the scope of their help. Here's chris mcknight a former patient who was referred to an wakey from the new school. A program headed by carl's mother tweety more. My father pulled me out of the school. I was going to editor mea the tweety more school the new school i was there for a couple months and at the new school. I met a couple people that i was at anna wakey with that were at her school. Post and wakey so as it turns out tweety more recommended analytic. It's not just me but to a lot of other kids. My feelings with tweety is. I don't think she knew about the abuse. Sedano achey i've known tweety. Since i was a little kid i mean she's she's passing our soul a number of former patients. I've interviewed said they were referred to in a wakey from other schools in similar ways where did spread throughout learning centers in georgia and neighboring states. That anna wakey was a solution for troubled kids who didn't have a place elsewhere. Now that anna wakey was officially licensed medical hospital. It was also receiving patients who were wards of the state of georgia and other neighboring states like alabama. This all amounted to a large increase in the number of patients. Enrolling anna wakey was running out of room.