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Season 2 Episode 272 - The meaning of love thy neighbor · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So we're talking about church
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  signs today because we all know we all probably drive in our
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  neighborhoods or wherever we are, and we see signs that
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  pastors put out on churches and they're meant to make us think
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  well. There was a sign on a church
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  right near my house. As I come around, I have the
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  privilege of living in a place where there are churches all
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  over the place and an abundance of them.
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  So I see a lot of these messages, and this one got me
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  thinking because it said love thy neighbor as thyself.
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  We've all heard that before. I've heard it from my mother 100
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  times growing up. It was something that she always
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  talked about. So I was very clear on it.
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  And. I didn't really think much about
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  it. I might be clear on it, but I
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  didn't really think much about it.
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  But when you start to take this and you really start to
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  contemplate it. So I'm in the car, I'm driving,
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  I see the sign. And now it's like a mindworm.
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  It's in there. I'm thinking.
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  I'm thinking, I'm thinking love thy neighbor as I love myself,
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  thyself. And I'm like, well, what if I
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  don't like myself? What if I just am not a fan of
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  myself? What if I feel like, you know,
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  I'm having a horrible time in life?
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  I'm depressed. How can I possibly turn around
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  and treat somebody else with love and kindness and respect
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  when I am absolutely miserable myself?
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  And of course that sent me down a whole Rd. about how other
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  people must really all these people that are out there, that
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  are miserable, that walk around with, you know, this scowl on
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  their face in a state of disdain for what's going on.
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  They complain about politics. They complain about the world.
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  They have all these issues, but they miss all the good stuff.
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  They miss all the small stuff that we're supposed to see.
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  In my opinion, you know, I think that the universe and God really
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  uphold the gift of having these everyday miracles.
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  Small, tiny little miracles. As I sit out here and watch the
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  chicken scratching in the yard, it's like kind of cool out here
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  this morning. And they're just, I think
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  they're grateful and they're a little quiet and they're having
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  their scratch and they're just moving around and like shit is
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  that they're just such little to me.
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  They're just such little miracles because they're so cool
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  and yet they're so deadly, like nothing can survive around them.
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  And they've got all these cool little gifts.
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  And I look at them and I'm like. And every day they go and they
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  make eggs and they're just so fabulously happy and I love that
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  And so I can sit there and I can say, hey, they they have a state
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  of joy. They bring, they bring a state
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  of joy and to me they they put that out there and I focus on
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  that. So, but other people just see
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  them as, you know, food or? Like a commodity, which is even
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  worse to me than just seeing them as food.
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  They see them as commodities. And we all have our own way of
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  viewing things. And that brings us back to the
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  initial phrase of will, Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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  But what you're bringing to the table is in question.
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  So you have to pause and say, well, you know, could I actually
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  say that I actually could love my neighbor like I love myself?
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  And what does that mean? You know the whole thing of
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  challenging everything. One of the reasons that I study
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  Buddhism the way that I do is because of the way the Buddha
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  presented a lot of things and because of his his strategy for
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  how he presented it. And one of my favorite things
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  that he ever said was the fact believe nothing that I say.
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  Find out for yourself. You decide.
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  Now that's paraphrasing, obviously, but that's what it
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  meant. You decide what it means to you.
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  I will put the information out and you decide.
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  And I follow that principle here.
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  I will tell you what works for me, and you get to decide.
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  And in this case, I think we have to really decide.
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  Well, the directive is very specific.
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  Love thy neighbor. But that second part of it is,
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  as I love myself, well, how can I possibly give something to
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  someone that I'm not giving to myself?
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  So all things have to start at home.
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  We go back to the analogy of like when you're in a plane and
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  something goes wrong and the masks fall from the ceiling.
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  The first directive that the pilot gives is put the mask on
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  yourself 1st and then help your neighbor.
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  And this one should be the same way in my opinion, we have to
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  assume. That we have to check in with
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  ourselves first before we can love another human being.
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  We can't possibly give what we don't have or cultivate in
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  ourselves because we all have love.
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  We all have things, but we must cultivate in ourselves first.
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  That part or we can't give it away.
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  If you come and knock on my door and say, hey, can I borrow a cup
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  of sugar? And I don't have a cup of sugar,
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  I can't give it to you. So that's the key.
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  You've got to start that process, You've got to make sure
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  that you are checking in with yourself 1st and then you can go
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  out and share that love. Alright my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.