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Season 3 - Episode 263- The meaning of the Lotus Flower · 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 mastermindset
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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 again, darkness.
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  So it's the porch today and it's raining because we're waiting on
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  the hurricane to come through. So I'm going to do this one
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  today on a favorite flower of mine, which has a very symbolic
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  meaning in Buddhism, and that is the Lotus.
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  And we know Lotus flowers are gorgeous.
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  They are, you know, not necessarily so short lived, but
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  they take those really special conditions in which to grow and
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  that is mud, my friends. They like to grow in the muck
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  the of the swamps. And they come out and they are
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  extraordinary. They're beautiful.
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  And in Buddhism, there's a symbol of this.
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  So let let me just kind of lay this out for you.
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  The Lotus flower is prized because it blossoms in muddy,
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  swampy, disgusting, smelly things.
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  What does this signify? It signifies that you can emerge
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  from the swamp. You know I'm air quoting here of
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  everyday life and still bloom. You can rise above the problems,
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  rise above the muck. It's such a beautiful thing to
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  think about that like you know that you're, you're in all the
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  muck, you're in the world, but you're not of the world.
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  You're rising above it. And there you are emerging as
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  this beautiful flower. And that is supposed to
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  represent the Buddha nature, who you really are.
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  You rise above no matter how difficult your life is, no
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  matter how difficult the circumstances that the Lotus
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  represents Buddha nature and you will always bloom.
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  You can bloom when you focus on that.
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  So here's the fun part of this. When you start thinking about it
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  and you say, you know, I want to have a very simple symbol that
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  gives me a reminder of this. This is the, the, the way you
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  see the Lotus. You put it in your life.
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  You have pictures of it, you see it and you realize that from all
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  the other things that are around you, you know, you have the
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  opportunity to rise above it. Now here's what's interesting.
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  You can always rise above it, but it's an opportunity.
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  That's the key to this whole thing, my friends.
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  It's an opportunity. It's not a guarantee that you'll
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  rise above it unless you choose to rise above it.
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  And I think for some of us, we forget that we have these
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  choices. And I forget that we have these
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  choices. Sometimes you just get hunkered
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  down in the problem and you own the problem.
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  It becomes your you obsess on it.
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  You can't stop thinking about it.
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  You, even you, you know you're doing it.
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  I know I do it. And I say to myself, Oh my God,
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  why am I thinking about this? And I have to stop myself now.
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  Do I do that as much now as I used to years ago?
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  No, because I've trained my brain to not go there.
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  I have trained my brain that this is not resourceful, Stop
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  it. And I, I use those words with
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  myself sometimes, stop it because it reminds me, OK,
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  that's a word. When you hear the word, stop it.
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  It's kind of programmed into humans.
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  If you hear someone yells, stop. Everyone freezes.
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  And it's programmed so we can use that to our benefit.
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  When you find yourself looping, when you find yourself not being
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  the Lotus rising above the situation, you can tell yourself
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  that word stop. Stop it, whatever it takes.
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  And then look around and remind yourself while you are in this
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  world, you are not of this world.
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  Whatever your beliefs are, religion, spirituality, whatever
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  it is, we are electric beings, we are vibration.
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  We are pure potential energy. So we're here, but we are not of
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  it. We can rise above it.
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  I'm in the world, but I am not of the world.
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  And we can rise above it like the Lotus does on that swamp.
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  And it becomes this beautiful reminder floating that there is
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  something completely different going on underneath.
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  But not for you. You're up the top and your face
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  is up to the sun, and you can see everything awesome that's
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  happening. And that's why the flower is
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  such an important symbol. So as we wait for the muck in
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  the mire today to arrive with, you know, tornado warnings, it's
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  it's like a interesting storm barreling through the gulf,
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  coming right up and walk, whaling right through.
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  We can remember that we have this beautiful way to not worry
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  about it. We have this beautiful way to
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  just say, I'm going to focus on something else.
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  I'm going to rise above the situation and I'm going to be
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  productive and feel centered no matter what is happening around
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  me. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day. I hope your day is less rainy
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  and gross than ours potentially will be weather wise, but just
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  know be in that state of the Lotus flower.
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  All right, my friends, have a blessed day.
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  Bye.