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Merrily on our Way · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: Mindful meditation.
• 0:03
  Speaker: I like to find a comfortable posture, undisturbed, in a location where because I come to it often, there is a ritual or habit created which says to me I can be relaxed and tranquil here.
• 0:22
  Speaker: These are simple requirements, and yet can be difficult, too.
• 0:31
  Speaker: So it makes an effort of energy to accomplish these tasks.
• 0:37
  Speaker: It is as simple as paying attention to oneself.
• 0:42
  Speaker: This is a means of beginning to more deeply, dive down into the layers of being a human being, of the illumination of what we are.
• 0:57
  Speaker: Aha, which is self-realization.
• 1:02
  Speaker: You hear this term.
• 1:04
  Speaker: It's a term saying you've made an effort, spent time developing one's own inner resources, practice, It's called.
• 1:23
  Speaker: It is a means of improving one's capability of Receptivity.
• 1:30
  Speaker: Each of us, we have a unique definition.
• 1:35
  Speaker: Each of us is thinking in our own unique ways.
• 1:40
  Speaker: Receptivity is one's ability, in my opinion, to perceive with curiosity, to discern as a witness, objectively, without judgment. It is not just the said and done.
• 1:52
  Speaker: We have decades, even centuries, of traditions set before us.
• 1:59
  Speaker: We are part of as an evolving species wherein we help conform our natures, our sense of understandings, rights and wrongs.
• 2:12
  Speaker: But they need not always be right.
• 2:16
  Speaker: For sure, sometimes things are wrong.
• 2:21
  Speaker: Both need to be addressed.
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  Speaker: One to be furthered and strengthened, the other to be lessened and changed.
• 2:29
  Speaker: For instance, slavery.
• 2:32
  Speaker: Thinking about one's body.
• 2:35
  Speaker: Let's put our fingers together, fingertips to finger tips, palms.
• 2:40
  Speaker: If you like touching or not, thumbs, why not?
• 2:45
  Speaker: Gives us a little more balance and support.
• 2:48
  Speaker: And just gently bringing one's attention to one's fingers tips and feeling this movement.
• 2:59
  Speaker: Not too hard, so that it moves.
• 3:01
  Speaker: There's a sense of freedom in one's hands.
• 3:04
  Speaker: And as your knees are moving, and maybe your upper thighs, if you have your forearms resting on your knees, on your upper thighs, then allowing this to be.
• 3:17
  Speaker: This is part of the drama of the activity on the play of life that we're witnessing in this moment now.
• 3:24
  Speaker: And of course, one's breathing.
• 3:26
  Speaker: So being aware of one's fingertips and one's breathing, the rising and the subsiding of one's lungs.
• 3:35
  Speaker: The air as it's pulled into one's nostrils and mouth and through the windpipe into one's lungs.
• 3:44
  Speaker: Top to bottom, and then back out again, bottom to top.
• 3:50
  Speaker: This is the beginning when one is cultivating a sense of focus.
• 3:59
  Speaker: Clearing one's mind from other disturbances, different situations, have some control.
• 4:11
  Speaker: Is there a threshold where the energy is simmering in the back beneath the threshold of actual sound?
• 4:40
  Speaker: Listening.
• 4:43
  Speaker: With one's eyes closed, with one's lids covering your eyes, looking into a brightness.
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  Speaker: What do you see with your optic nerve?
• 5:02
  Speaker: What colors do you see in this background?
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  Speaker: Is it reddish orange glowing?
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  Speaker: This is a supportive thing to do.
• 5:19
  Speaker: To know your color.
• 5:21
  Speaker: This is the color of your skin and blood flowing thru it.
• 5:24
  Speaker: This interpretation of the light's energy coming through your skin.
• 5:29
  Speaker: It's a beautiful color.
• 5:37
  Speaker: Every once in a while one should hum.
• 5:39
  Speaker: Hum.
• 5:40
  Speaker: And I say this not to be just silly, but it is silly.
• 5:48
  Speaker: Yet also to help one formulate a continually heightening awareness, practice of what's going on.
• 6:00
  Speaker: As our syllables are vibrating in our chest cavity, we feel this.
• 6:08
  Speaker: And thereby in every place in our bodies, because even the blood is now vibrating as it merely makes its way through one's arteries and back through one's veins.
• 6:26
  Speaker: This is going on all the time.
• 6:29
  Speaker: How many times does one's heart beat in a day?
• 6:36
  Speaker: Around ninety thousand times.
• 6:38
  Speaker: How many breaths do we normally take in a day?
• 6:46
  Speaker: About twenty thousand.
• 6:50
  Speaker: Being open, being receptive, sensitive, being kind.
• 6:56
  Speaker: Kindness is something you would think in meditation is not necessarily needed.
• 7:03
  Speaker: What does kindness have to do with my meditating?
• 7:07
  Speaker: And I would say "everything." It is as important as the practice itself.
• 7:13
  Speaker: One must be nice to one's own soul, to have a sense of equanimity great enough to make the difference in one's own practice.
• 7:26
  Speaker: Practice should be your life.
• 7:28
  Speaker: Practice is a means to becoming more aware.
• 7:33
  Speaker: It is not for five or ten, fifteen minutes.
• 7:38
  Speaker: It is evolution.
• 7:40
  Speaker: It is becoming more aware.
• 7:42
  Speaker: As a species, the Aquarian age has dawned.
• 7:47
  Speaker: It is time for us to change.
• 7:52
  Speaker: We need to finish our maturation process.
• 7:55
  Speaker: It has already begun.
• 7:58
  Speaker: It has been thousands of years in the preparation.
• 8:03
  Speaker: Each of us has an inherent and great responsibility for this gift each has received of life.
• 8:20
  Speaker: Yes?
• 8:21
  Speaker: Of course.
• 8:23
  Speaker: A responsibility to oneself and to all mankind.
• 8:30
  Speaker: And by this nature, by one's depth of understanding unto all things, because we are a part of everything.
• 8:41
  Speaker: When we drill down deep enough, the barriers between disappear.
• 8:50
  Speaker: And everything is the primal energy of creation.
• 8:55
  Speaker: God is as much in you as God is anywhere.
• 9:05
  Speaker: Know thyself.
• 9:08
  Speaker: To thine own self be true.
• 9:12
  Speaker: These words hearken to different times, to over two thousand years ago and five hundred years, and yet they speak true and ring in our souls, being aware one's breath, one's pulse, feeling fingertips and thumbs.
• 9:39
  Speaker: Allowing one's palms to press gently together, if you haven't already, and noticing the space in between one's center of two palms.
• 9:49
  Speaker: You're not pushing very hard, gently.
• 9:52
  Speaker: More we're feeling in our fingertips, and the length of our fingers and around the edges of the palms and our thumbs.
• 10:02
  Speaker: And of course, with we have our hands in what posture?
• 10:06
  Speaker: Maybe you have it in front of your chest, like in a prayer position, or maybe you have your hands in your lap.
• 10:13
  Speaker: There'll be different muscular activities, different gravitational pulls.
• 10:18
  Speaker: Feeling, getting to know oneself.
• 10:21
  Speaker: It's silly, it's fun, it's simple because you are one.
• 10:28
  Speaker: We allow ourselves to be scattered by ten thousand different questions and answers of our twenty-first century civilization.
• 10:39
  Speaker: And yet the simplest answers are the closest ones.
• 10:46
  Speaker: It is in one's breathing process, one's circulatory process, one's bodily processes.
• 10:56
  Speaker: Sometimes, We can't just find the answer to learning to focus enough to mindfully meditate.
• 11:03
  Speaker: Because this is what we're talking about, right?
• 11:06
  Speaker: People come to these kinds of podcasts because they want to "learn" to meditate.
• 11:11
  Speaker: You need nothing but yourself, allowing oneself to feel the heat emanating from one's body.
• 11:24
  Speaker: How much more simple than this to feel between one's hands your heart's rhythmic pulsing?
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  Speaker: One by one by one.
• 11:48
  Speaker: What did we say earlier?
• 11:52
  Speaker: Ninety thousand times a day.
• 11:55
  Speaker: When was the last time you said thank you to your heart muscle for working so well?
• 12:02
  Speaker: Remember to hum and in remembering to hum, feel the presence of godliness inside.
• 12:15
  Speaker: For that which we're speaking of is always waiting.
• 12:21
  Speaker: It is you and I that brush this presence aside.
• 12:27
  Speaker: This is what receptivity is for.
• 12:30
  Speaker: To help one be able to open one's windows and doors.
• 12:36
  Speaker: The presence of the universe is in essence both everlasting and ever present.
• 12:44
  Speaker: It is you and I.
• 12:49
  Speaker: And what do we need to do?
• 12:52
  Speaker: Look inside, finding the rhythms and processes of one's own life here in miraculous nature.
• 13:04
  Speaker: You are looking for miracles to help confirm your feelings of positivity.
• 13:14
  Speaker: Look down at your knees and your fingertips.
• 13:19
  Speaker: Look down at your feet, look at the end, at the tip of one's nose.
• 13:27
  Speaker: It is you who are a bundle of miracles.
• 13:32
  Speaker: Continue all day.
• 13:34
  Speaker: It is you humbled because of our widening perspectives.
• 13:44
  Speaker: Thankful for everything there is.