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Season 5 - Episode 46 - A monk, a question and quieting your mind! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. Question of the day is how do
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  you create peace in your life? Yesterday I was listening to
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  Shaolin Monk talk about he was during an interview and it was
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  part of the interview and the subject was all about growing
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  and what it takes for determination and everything
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  else because the Shaolins are very determined people, the way
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  they live their lives, the discipline.
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  And the interview was about discipline.
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  However, the the brilliant interviewer said, do you look to
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  be happy? Do you look to create happiness
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  in your life? And the monk stopped and he
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  paused and you could see that he was actually contemplating the
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  question. It was not off the cuff.
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  And the interviewer said, I'm sorry, was I was that like not a
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  question I should have asked. And he said, no, I'm, I'm
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  contemplating happiness in, in this, in the way you questioned
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  it. And he said, I truly believe,
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  and I'm obviously paraphrasing because I didn't memorize it,
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  but he said, I truly believe that, you know, happiness, just
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  like all the other emotions, has a duality.
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  And so whenever you're happy, you're going to experience
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  sadness. Whenever you're excited, you're
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  going to experience calm. Everything has a duality.
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  Now, you've heard me say this a billion times, that it's the
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  universe is filled with duality, just like the seasons out here
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  on the farm as we get ready to go into the spring season, it's
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  so amazing because life is about to jump up again and be present
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  and it's coming out of that darkness of nothing.
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  So the duality is constantly in my face and even in my own mind,
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  you know, moments of anxiety, moments of calm.
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  But back to what he said. So the monk said, well, what do
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  you strive for then? If most of us strive for
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  happiness and, and you are saying it's, it's challenging
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  because there's always a duality, What do you do?
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  And he paused again. And he said, I look for peace.
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  And while peace has the chaos as, as something on the other
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  side, there's a, there's a, a spot in between and it's in
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  between the thoughts. And that's the spot I'm looking
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  for the spot in between the thoughts.
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  Now I refer to that as being neutral.
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  Wayne Dyer used to talk about find the spot between the
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  thoughts and I. And, and that to me is the
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  nothingness. That's the quiet mind, But
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  that's extremely, extremely hard to attain for me.
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  And the only place that though that is quiet is when my hands
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  are in the dirt, busy, creating art, something.
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  My hands have to be busy and they have to be loving what
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  they're doing. And then there's what I consider
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  neutral. I'm, there's nothingness.
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  It's just neutral. And so the monk considers that
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  peace. It's very amusing to me how we
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  as human beings have so many different ways to describe
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  things. And I, I think it's really
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  important to remember this because even as someone is
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  trained, as this person is, he's still struggling to answer the
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  question about happiness. And I thought that that was so
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  fascinating and so telling because if this man who has is
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  35 generations into Shaolin Monk and has been trained since he
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  was four years old and has discipline like nobody else and,
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  and has pushed himself. And he thinks and pauses about
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  the question, imagine what the rest of us have to think because
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  we live in the chaos. We live in the constant chaos.
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  So that thought between the thought when you're laying there
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  and you're just not thinking about anything or you're doing
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  something like me when I'm, I'm putting my hands in the dirt and
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  I'm Yesterday I was repotting a plant and I realized for a
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  fraction of a second it flew into my head that I wasn't
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  thinking. And I was like, wow, that was
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  great. Like I was just present.
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  I was looking at what I was doing.
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  I was fully engaged in it and my brain was not doing anything
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  else. It wasn't thinking about what I
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  was going to talk to you about. It wasn't thinking of anything.
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  And I'm, I'm like, wow. And then I went, I, I stopped
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  myself and I said, no, no, I want to go back to the plant.
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  And I went back to the plant, but I lost the moment the second
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  I saw it. And that happens a lot because
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  it pulls us from where we are into that thought process, that
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  swirling, whirling dervish of a brain again.
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  So today, look for those spots where it's quiet, look for the
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  spots of neutrality. Or if your word is peace like
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  the monk's word is, look for the peace, look for the happiness,
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  look for the neutral, whatever your word is.
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  But just remember the the world, the universe is filled with
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  duality. So it's always going to be a
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  challenge, but it's a fun challenge.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.