Buddhist Boot Camp

By Timber Hawkeye

Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation’s short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any order, and are simple and easy to understand. Each story, inspirational quote and teaching offers mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to. You don’t need to be a Buddhist to find this book motivational. As the Dalai Lama says, “Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.”

Whether it’s Mother Teresa’s acts of charity, Gandhi’s perseverance, or your aunt Betty’s calm demeanor, it doesn’t matter who inspires you, so long as you’re 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 isn’t 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!
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Feb 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062267450

Timber Hawkeye

Timber Hawkeye offers a non-sectarian approach to being at peace with the world, both within and around us. His intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire.

Reviews for Buddhist Boot Camp

[Nita Thornton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an amazing book, so easy to read, to understand and easy to follow. Thank you Timber

[Mark · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Valuable thoughts and lessons to live by. Thank you for this practice

[Alexis Jack · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book just opened my eyes to so much! This is a must read!!! I definitely will be rereading

[Pearl Whitecrow · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Pretty good, quick read. I enjoyed it. Simple and inspiring.

[Tracey Erskine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love it! Will continue to use as a reference and source to keep me accountable and aware. Thank you!

[Marcin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I think that everyone should read this book. It is worth the time.

[dh1writer · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Timber Hawkeye starts by saying you can apply Buddhist principles to any life. Then quickly moves into the path to bliss is meditation, service and minimalism. I'm probably being unnecessarily harsh, but I actually thought I would learn something I could actually use in my rather ordinary, pedestrian life where I have commitments to other people. I was very disappointed to be subjected to unrealistic dogma.

[swampwoman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

.. best little book you'll ever read :)

[razinha-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Here's the good news: it's short. AND, the pages are blank (!) ...
...of anything that can be remotely construed as substance.

Maybe reading this after watching Mystery Men last week wasn't a good idea. Timber Hawkeye's (I don't have the desire to find out if that's his real name...) blathering is full of such gems as: "The past will let go of you if you let go of the past." No sh!t. He says LOTS of that crap in this comedic effort. Broad assumptions. Laced with logical fallacies. Misquotes (dude...you could have at least checked that Einstein never said that bit about a fish climbing a tree!)

And pith. This would have pithed me off if I had taken it seriously after the first page. I pithy the fools who think this is more than twitter prattle.

Deserves one star, but I'm being kind this year. Plus he made me laugh.

Want to learn about Buddhism? Read a real book, not this. Now I need to read something to regain the IQ points I lost.

[jasoncomely-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Agnostic quasi-religious treatise on how to realize divinity (a.k.a. reality). It seems Huxley's The Divine Within was more than enough for me.

[princesca_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It's a good book in principle, but rather repetitive, and a touch too religious in its own way, rather than philosophical. I am not sure of the value of transcending the illusion of "I", in favour of being "nothing", or "everything", according to the book. I leave you with a quote I liked at p.83, "Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love".

[mpc · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Sehr motivierend! Von Anfang bis Ende haben mir die einfachen Ratschläge neue Kraft gegeben.

[qgil_2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What have all the mystics of all times and all religions in common? What are all of them telling and doing with their lives? Mr Huxley goes find about and tell you in this masterpiece, that happens to be double masterpiece for the fact of being published in the most atheist period of Humanity, and not even in a way that would fight such atheism. Because the book is not trying to bring you to any religion. In fact, religions are presented as obstacles to reach the total knowledge (and the total love, which for a mystic I guess is just the same). Precious.

[adrianesc_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book brought all spiritual and religious thought down to several basic commonalities. These are the tenets, then that have more likelihood of real truth.

[takeitorleaveit_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

documented brilliance. this is a wandering intellects encyclopedia that embodies all the Eastern religions and critiques most of the Western ones to in a way only the great late Mr. Huxley could do.a book that changes minds forever