Outrospection

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

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Visibility leads to acceptance. Exposure to diversity opens our eyes first, our minds second, and our hearts third. When we understand and connect with one another, empathy and compassion become the inevitable end results. Let's talk about the problem with the Golden Rule and the importance of balancing introspection with outrospection.

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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	I spoke at a Unity Church last Sunday about how important it is for us to balance introspection with outrospection. As a kid I spent hours alone in my room reading, drawing, and building model airplanes.
0:41.9	If I misbehaved at school my parents couldn't punish me by
0:45.1	yelling go to your room because my room is exactly where I always wanted to be.
0:50.3	Instead they literally locked me out of the house and said, go play outside like a normal kid, make
0:56.1	some friends.
0:57.1	And while I'm not condoning this parenting method, in hindsight, it probably did me some good.
1:02.6	Mind you, this was years before we had terms for introverts or extroverts, kids on the spectrum,
1:08.4	and so on.
1:09.3	Children were either considered to be well adjusted, meaning they followed the one-size-fits-all set of behavior rules and guidelines to fit in, or they were considered misbehaving troublemakers. Outcasts.
1:21.0	The only place I actually fit in was in after-school programs to learn Pascal software
1:26.4	and robotics, which is where I made a couple of friends who otherwise also pretty much kept to themselves.
1:38.0	Although alone time is healthy, so were the hours I was forced to socialize with others. Whether locked outside the house so I can play with neighborhood kids or on mandatory school field trips and camping adventures much to my resistance at the time.
1:47.0	Just as I was entering teenage years, my family moved from small town in the northernmost part of Israel where I grew up to California.
1:55.2	The high school I attended in San Francisco not only had more students in it than my old
2:00.1	town had residents but I was suddenly surrounded by Asians, blacks, Latinos, and maybe a handful of other
2:06.4	Caucasians.
2:07.4	It was a culture shock. In fact, I probably would have gone into actual shock or drawn inward even more had I not been encouraged to
2:15.4	socialize in my earlier years. I'm not saying I was well adjusted, I'm still not, but
2:20.5	I managed to quickly learn English, make some friends, and stay curious about
2:24.8	everyone's culture, religion, and ethnic background. I asked so many questions
2:30.5	because nothing and no one resembled anything to which I had previously been exposed.
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