Conviction

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

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Understing what's going on with people who don't walk the talk. Are they hypocritical or reasonable? Is it possible for us to be driven by conflicting intentions, or is it our old friend Cognitive Dissonance? Does doing this create turmoil within? Only you can answer that for yourself.

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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.
0:34.7	The Buddhist Boot Camp discussion group meets in person and over Zoom once a month to dive deeper into each month's food for thought. With the intention to better understand how and why people say one thing and do another,
0:39.4	we looked a little closer at this inconsistency.
0:42.3	What I gathered from the discussions was that even if you
0:44.9	managed to get a bunch of people together in a room who all share the exact same
0:48.8	values, they would still disagree on how to prioritize those values. whether we're talking about women's rights or
0:54.5	immigration, health care, gun control, animal cruelty, marriage equality, the environment,
0:59.6	abortion, and so on.
1:01.2	The following is the first example it took for me to understand this
1:04.2	level of flexibility without seeing it as contradictory. I'm going to use a
1:08.7	less triggering example than alcohol consumption from the last episode
1:12.2	since that was apparently too divisive.
1:14.4	So let's just imagine two people who truly love good quality dark chocolate.
1:18.4	Both Sebastian and Sabrina care about supporting organic fair trade women-owned businesses that make single
1:24.5	origin dairy-free dark chocolate in solar-powered facilities whenever they can.
1:28.4	But since it's difficult if not impossible to find a chocolate bar that meets all of their criteria, they each
1:34.1	end up buying a different brand of chocolate based on how they individually prioritize
1:38.4	their shared values. While neither one of them would ever budge on the dairy-free aspect, Sebastian picked the chocolate bar that is organic but not necessarily made from single origin cacao, while Sabrina prioritized single origin and fair trade over everything else.
1:52.8	Keep in mind that their values are exactly the same, but because they prioritize those
1:56.8	values differently, they can't agree on which chocolate bar to get.
2:00.5	Imagine this inability to agree on a global scale with much bigger issues and the world starts to make more sense.
2:06.5	Sabrina and Sebastian ended up getting both chocolate bars and neither one of them is right or wrong.
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