Ceasefire

Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

As long as I think there is a war inside of me, the battle will continue, but struggle is not a requirement. We can call a truce, enter a peace agreement, and stop fighting. If we want inner-peace, we must be peaceful.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:30.0	I used to think there was a war inside of me. I mean, I tried to eat healthy, but I also want cake. One minute I'm grateful to be home and don't
0:35.8	want to go anywhere else. And then I think, Costa Rica must be nice this time of year.
0:40.8	I love being alone, but sometimes I crave the company of year. I love being alone but sometimes I crave the company of others and I haven't
0:45.2	eaten animals in almost 20 years but I miss the ease of finding places to eat wherever I go.
0:51.5	Over the years I have written about the internal struggle of guilt and redemption, balancing
0:56.0	hope and despair, and oscillating between confidence and insecurity.
1:00.7	So long as I thought of it as a war or a battle to be one, I figured one side needed to destroy the other.
1:06.0	It didn't help that one of the Buddhist temples in which I lived didn't have a typical Buddhist statue on the altar like the one we have all seen of a serene meditative figure sitting cross-legged.
1:17.5	They had a warrior with a sword raised high above his head sitting on top of a lion depicting a Buddha cutting down ignorance
1:24.6	training the ferocious beast which was representing the mind. This visual further
1:29.8	confirmed for me that the spiritual journey was a fight to the end.
1:33.6	And all these years later, I'm either wiser or simply tired of fighting,
1:37.9	so thinking about my mind as a battlefield no longer serves me.
1:42.3	The name of that Buddha on the lion or sometimes the dragon by the way was
1:46.7	Manju Shri which translates to gentle glory. The statue although appearing violent is not about killing the wild beast.
1:55.0	It's about taming it.
1:56.5	And tame means domesticated, docile, mild, and no longer dangerous.
2:02.0	And since this isn't a war I am calling for a ceasefire.
2:05.8	All sides need to stop arguing and understand that perfection is the enemy, not the goal.
2:11.4	Moderation does not mean mediocrity and it's actually possible to be healthy and eat cake.
2:17.0	Thank God.
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