Change The World
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
Timber Hawkeye
4.8 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
If you don't define what "enough" means to you, you will never HAVE enough, and you will never feel like you ARE enough. You can't change the world in its entirety, but you CAN change someone's entire world, and that, my friends, is enough!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Buddhist boot camp podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. |
| 0:17.9 | Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye. |
| 0:27.7 | Many people have been reaching out to me lately because they feel discouraged or powerless |
| 0:32.9 | to make a significant impact in the world. In an ongoing effort to get to the root of our impulse |
| 0:38.3 | to complain rather than to make a difference where we can, I hosted a group discussion about |
| 0:43.1 | this topic in Ventura and in Los Sos, California, as well as online over Zoom, to which all |
| 0:49.4 | monthly supporters from all over the world are invited every month. What I saw hiding behind people's |
| 0:55.9 | feeling of helplessness is our collective addiction to more, which you've heard me talk about |
| 1:01.1 | in different contexts, but never in how it relates to being of service. As a refresher, if you |
| 1:07.0 | don't define what enough means to you, then you will never have it. This is true when people |
| 1:12.4 | chase money, houses, cars, relationships, and so on. But it's apparently also true when we each |
| 1:18.0 | gauge what a difference we can make. If we aren't saving lives or winning a Nobel Prize, |
| 1:23.1 | we fall into the trap of thinking that we aren't doing enough. But again, it's all because we haven't |
| 1:28.0 | defined what enough means to us, so as a result, we never get there. Think of the Titanic |
| 1:33.1 | sinking and the different ways passengers reacted, at least in the movie. Some panicked and ran |
| 1:38.8 | around screaming. Others snuggled together and peacefully accepted the inevitable. A few people jumped ship, more than a few looked for someone to blame, |
| 1:47.2 | and when the band started playing music as the boat was going down, |
| 1:51.0 | I initially thought it was silly, but now I realized that improving or soothing |
| 1:55.7 | a few moments in someone's life is the best use of our remaining time together. If you don't think |
| 2:02.4 | that's enough, is it because you generally believe nothing is? I think of my friend Michelle, |
| 2:07.6 | who is obviously unable to single-handedly up-end legislation or keep the Arctic from melting, |
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