Buddhist Boot Camp

by Timber Hawkeye

Habitually contemplate whether your thoughts stem from love or from fear. If your thoughts originate in love, then follow them. But if they originate from a place of fear, then dig deep to find the root of your fear. Only then will you be able to finally let go of it so that fear no longer limits your possibilities.

First things first: stop granting yourself everything you crave. Doing so simply conditions the spoiled kid to know that it can continue having whatever it wants.

Wouldn’t it be great to stop, if only for a minute on a regular basis, and reflect on how wonderful everything is?

Pause for a moment and honor the progress you’ve already made in your life, acknowledge the gifts you do have, and appreciate life itself for a few breaths.

Treat every living being, including yourself, with kindness, and the world will immediately be a better place.

The most important (and difficult) aspect of ANY job is to focus on the task at hand, and to not worry whether someone else is doing her or his part.

We cannot control what anyone else is up to; we can only be mindful of what we can each do individually, and do it well.

May we all close the gap between what we believe and how we act in the world.

Life is an ongoing classroom in which everyone is our teacher, and every situation contains a lesson for us to learn. It is only by first being patient with myself that I can ever learn to be patient with others.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish. —Dan Millman

Gratitude is an amazing antidote to almost any negative feeling.

The minute we are angry with someone is the minute we have momentarily forgotten how grateful we are for having them in our lives in the first place.