Fear

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

🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Fear will run and ruin your life if you let it. The trick is to see fear as a speed bump, not a dead-end street. This episode is only five minutes long, but it can stay with you for a lifetime. The Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast is commercial-free without ads or sponsorships thanks to listeners like you who donate as little as $1 a month through patreon.com/buddhistbootcamp Thank you for being a Soldier of Peace in the Army of Love.

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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.
0:31.0	I want you to imagine a 50-pound bag of dirt on the floor. It is in the middle of your path between the front door and the bathroom,
0:35.1	forcing you to walk around it or step over it multiple times a day. That obstacle is 25
0:41.2	kilograms at which you frequently curse, regularly trip over,
0:45.0	sometimes stub your toe against or twist your ankle,
0:48.0	yet you refuse to pick it up and move it because you claim it would either
0:52.0	require too much work, it's just too heavy, or the excuse I hear most often, that's easier said than done.
0:59.0	All over the world, people would rather learn to live with the dirt and their bruised ankles
1:04.6	than do whatever it takes to clear their path. Walking around the dirt seems like the easier choice
1:10.9	because it involves no heavy lifting, but it's a passive and sometimes
1:15.2	subconscious contribution to our own suffering that manifests itself in other areas of our lives as well.
1:23.0	Depending on the household in which we were raised,
1:26.0	many of us took our very first steps on edge shells,
1:29.0	so we may not even be aware that a life without landmines is even an option. And if we don't do whatever it takes to
1:36.4	smooth out our path as adults, life can quickly turn into an obstacle course, especially if you have multiple piles of dirt to navigate around.
1:45.9	Of course, we're not actually talking about dirt, eggshells, or landmines.
1:50.6	We're talking about real-world obstacles, such as miserable jobs that we refuse to quit,
1:56.2	failed relationships we can't seem to abandon, dietary or fitness in decisions that affect our overall health,
2:03.2	uncomfortable living situations from which we can move but don't, and so on.
2:08.1	All too often, making big changes seems like too much work, so we just keep keep on keep it on. Is this phenomenon a
2:15.3	simple case of us not trusting ourselves or are we the human equivalent of the
2:20.4	terrible urban legend about the frog in hot water myth, where a frog will immediately
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