Perspective

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

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to pay too much attention and lose perspective? Let's not miss the forest for the trees, nor the trees for the forest.

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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. My friend Sheila is deeply passionate about current events.
0:31.0	She's terribly upset about the war in Ukraine, the
0:34.4	pandemic, the shootings in Texas and Buffalo and don't even get her started on
0:38.6	politics. I just watched her get really angry with Maria who thought the situation with Ukraine
0:44.0	wasn't so much a war as a two-day attack that came and went. She had no idea.
0:48.1	She didn't even hear about the shootings in Buffalo. But boy is she mortified that 72 billion land animals are being slaughtered
0:56.3	for human consumption each year? It all feels very important depending on perspective.
1:01.9	A third friend in the room reluctantly admitted that he just heard about what happened in Texas a couple of days ago.
1:08.0	He had no idea we were killing that many animals for food and he wouldn't be able to find Ukraine on the map if you paid him to.
1:15.6	He said I'm too busy worried about what's happening in my own home.
1:19.6	That's when Sheila and Maria looked at Rodney and yelled,
1:22.4	this planet is your home and we all last That's when Sheila and Maria looked at Rodney and yelled,
1:22.6	This planet is your home.
1:24.3	And we all laughed at the absurdity of fighting over who cares more about what.
1:29.4	Before I turned 40, everything was in focus.
1:32.3	But seemingly overnight I needed glasses to clearly see things
1:35.6	up close. Five years later everything is blurry without a proper prescription.
1:40.5	Buddhism as I understand it offers the bifocals we all need to keep things in focus.
1:47.0	According to the Buddha, the moment we see the tree in front of us as somehow separate from us, we've lost perspective.
1:54.3	Think about how it felt like a really big deal when you were five years old and didn't get the
1:58.8	toy you wanted for your birthday, or when you were in middle school and didn't get picked for Dodgeball.
2:04.0	When you were in high school and didn't get noticed by the heart throb on campus,
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