Book : Buddhist Boot Camp - Hawkeye, Timber

-Titulo Original : Buddhist Boot Camp

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Review Buddhist Boot Camp transforms you into a better, kinder you! --Compass BooksTimbers intention to heal comes through on every page of Buddhist Boot Camp --Samadhi Yoga Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generations short attention span. The chapters in this book are a collection of eight years worth of letters and journal entries, which is why each chapter is only a page long and can be read in any order. The stories, inspirational quotes, and teachings offer mindfulness-enhancing techniques to which anyone can relate. You dont need to be a Buddhist to find this book motivational. As the Dalai Lama says, Dont try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.Whether its Mother Teresas acts of charity, Gandhis perseverance, or your aunt Bettys calm demeanor, it doesnt matter who inspires you, so long as youre motivated to be better today than you were yesterday. Regardless or religion or geographical region, race, ethnicity, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, flexibility, or vulnerability, if you do good, you feel good, and if you do bad, you feel bad. If you agree that Buddhism isnt just about meditating, but also about rolling up your sleeves and relieving some of the suffering in the world, then you are ready to be a soldier of peace in the army of love; welcome to Buddhist Boot Camp! From the Author Buddhist Boot Camp is a simple collection of my one-page journal entries and personal letters to friends over the course of a few years. Almost ten years ago, when I left the corporate world and moved to Hawaii, I started emailing my friends and family every a month to let them know whats going on in my life. About eight years later, my friend Kim suggested that I share those emails on a blog (simply because she found the letters inspirational, and she figured that other people would benefit from reading them as well), and thats how Buddhist Boot Camp was born! As it turns out, Kim was right! Many people found the simple message in those emails refreshing, inspirational, and (even more importantly), motivational. I say that motivation is more important because inspiration without action is just entertainment, and my invitation in the book is to go beyond thinking that something is a good idea to actually implementing it into our daily lives. Its not about Buddhism (so if youre looking for a scholarly study of its philosophy, this isnt the book for you). The invitation is to be Buddha-like or Christ-like, not to be labeled as Buddhist or Christian. Each story, inspirational quote and teaching offers mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to, reinforcing what we intuitively already know but have somehow forgotten. Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generations short attention span. Thank you for being a soldier of peace in the army of love,Your brother,Timber H. From the Inside Flap To make a long story short... I sat there in front of the Tibetan Lama, wearing my maroon robes after years of studying Buddhism and said, With all due respect, I dont believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get THIS complicated! My teacher looked around at all the statues of deities with multiple arms and chuckled, The Buddha didnt do this! The Tibetan culture did; this is their way. Why dont you try Zen? I think youd like it! So I bowed-out of the temple, took off my robes, and moved into a Zen monastery far from home. Zen was simpler; that much was true (the walls were blank and I loved it), but the teachings were still filled with all the dogma that sent me running from religion in the first place. There are many incredible books out there that cover all aspects of religion, philosophy, psychology and physics, but I was looking for something les