Have you ever considered quitting your 9-5 job and working a 20 hour work week? What about having more flexibility to pursue your passions outside of work? How can you make it happen? What kind of lifestyle changes can you expect? Join CJ as she interviews Timber Hawkeye, author of international best-selling book” Buddhist Boot Camp” who has offers advice about quitting the rat race.
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Writing by our Guest
We are the victims of our own choices: Sample Chapter from the Book “Buddhist Boot Camp”.
Treat every living being with kindness, including yourself, and the world will immediately be a better place.
About Our Guest
Timber Hawkeye, author of Buddhist Boot Camp, offers a non-sectarian approach to being at peace with the world, both within and around us. His intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich and inspire. To make a long story short, I sat there in front of the Tibetan Lama, wearing my maroon robes after years of studying Buddhism and 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 chuckled, “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!” 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 in their daily lives. I pictured a simple guide to being happy, and in it just two words: “Be Grateful.” Gratitude has a way of turning what we have into enough, and that is the basic idea behind my story. I was writing letters to my friends over the years to let them know what’s going on with me, and one friend suggested I post the letters on a blog. The blog became a book in which each chapter is only a page-long (just like the emails), conveying everything I have learned over the years, but doing so in a way that is easy to understand (without anyone needing to know anything about Buddhism ahead of time). In-fact, the book isn’t about being a Buddhist at all; it’s about being the best version of us there is! Welcoming soldiers of peace in the army of love… Your brother, Timber H.
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