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.

It's been said that the truth can set us free, but from what? Does it liberate us from all the lies that hold us hostage?

I'm curious why we are so easily deceived in the first place, and whether it would just

make more sense for us to start taking everything with a grain of salt, not just what we hear from others, but the lies we tell ourselves as well.

The origin of taking things with a grain of salt, or with a bit of skepticism skepticism has to do with making poison easier to swallow,

whether that poison is actual venom or a potential lie.

Now as you know, in an ongoing effort to put what would learn into practice I regularly

share intimate examples for my personal life with you but I want to be very clear

before I dive into this episode that using this real life example is not politically motivated in any way

whatsoever nor am I making any claims about the current state of the world.

This is simply a glimpse into the past few weeks of my life and the lessons I found therein.

Seven weeks ago, my friend Eileen was diagnosed with cancer,

so I moved into her guest house to help out before, during, and after the surgery.

Much to everyone's surprise, she tested positive for COVID-19 two days before the operation.

So the Department of Health ordered both of us into strict quarantine and the surgery was immediately

cancelled.

As friends and members of her community started to panic, my impulse as caregiver was to take

the test results with a grain of salt.

Get Eileen retested as soon as possible

and calmly proceed from there.

What I found interesting was that even though both the second and the third test came back negative, it was already too late.

The original surgery slot was given to another patient.

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