Intervention
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
Timber Hawkeye
4.8 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Are you living in line with your values? Do you know what your values are? This month's intervention holds up a mirror for us to look at ourselves and question whether we claim to be one way but act another. It's an invitation to live a congruent life in our integrity, where what we think, what we say, and what we do is all in alignment. If you find value in these podcast episodes, please show your support through Venmo @TimberHawkeye or with as little as $1 a month through https://Patreon.com/BuddhistBootCamp or a one-time contribution at https://www.buddhistbootcamp.com/support Thank you for being a Soldier of Peace in the Army of Love.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | Two years after I took the monastic vows, trading all my worldly possessions for a pair of monks robes, I moved into a monastery that was off the grid, remote, and blissfully quiet. One day my friend Kim |
| 0:41.0 | sent me a letter saying, timber I understand why you love living there. |
| 0:44.8 | I mean who wouldn't? But how can you honor your vows to be of service to others if you cut yourself |
| 0:50.1 | off from the rest of the world and keep herself tucked away in the mountain somewhere. |
| 0:54.0 | Kim didn't point out my hypocrisy because she's cruel or judgmental. |
| 0:58.0 | She did it to shed light on what I couldn't see from where I was sitting |
| 1:02.0 | that my actions were not congruent with my words. |
| 1:05.7 | There was no reason for me to get defensive because Kim wasn't on the offensive. |
| 1:10.3 | In fact, Kim's comment had nothing to do with her personal needs or opinions. |
| 1:15.0 | It was about me saying one thing and doing another. |
| 1:18.0 | Don't get me wrong, I don't regret moving to the monastery in the first place, |
| 1:22.0 | but after Kim's intervention, I couldn't justify staying. |
| 1:26.0 | NVC, nonviolent communication, considers unsolicited advice a form of bullying and judgment, but Kim's comment wasn't unsolicited. |
| 1:35.4 | I have an understanding with all my friends that being supportive of one another |
| 1:39.8 | does not mean blindly cheering each other on. For instance, if any of us are about to repeat a harmful |
| 1:46.2 | cycle that we swore we wanted to break, be it drinking to excess, getting into another |
| 1:51.1 | dysfunctional relationship, or deviating from a path we have |
| 1:54.4 | previously claimed we wish to follow. We welcome intervention. I mean I wouldn't |
| 1:59.3 | tell my buddy John to stop smoking because Johnny never claimed he wanted to stop but I would |
| 2:04.0 | definitely urge my friend Ashley to spend less money if she had previously told me |
| 2:08.7 | that getting out of debt was her top priority. You see it's not about pushing my opinions on anyone, it's about supporting |
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