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Finding One's Way · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: Being here now.
• 0:04
  Speaker: Hearing these words for the first time.
• 0:08
  Speaker: Realizing that distance of understanding we're sharing is much more than just in this moment.
• 0:18
  Speaker: It is the result of a history of learning begun literally before we leave our mother's womb.
• 0:29
  Speaker: We hear words through the vibrations and perhaps even the sounds as we linger in our mother's womb.
• 0:43
  Speaker: Becoming familiar with sound, with the feeling of sound.
• 0:50
  Speaker: Taking nothing for granted is better than taking everything for granted.
• 1:00
  Speaker: Being aware, being alert, awakening to one's potential.
• 1:12
  Speaker: We can explore our past, realize how we have learned to communicate, to respond, to understand.
• 1:24
  Speaker: We can, with this knowledge, change ourselves in more positive ways than negative.
• 1:33
  Speaker: We can learn lessons about life.
• 1:37
  Speaker: We can learn lessons about behavior, how we interact with ourselves, with everything beyond ourselves.
• 1:48
  Speaker: Our friends, our family, our acquaintances.
• 1:52
  Speaker: Everything we do.
• 1:55
  Speaker: It need not just be people, it can be subject matters in working.
• 2:01
  Speaker: What is one's relationship to these different kinds of pursuits, one's hobbies?
• 2:09
  Speaker: The thread each of these carries is practice.
• 2:15
  Speaker: One facilitates, creates habits and rituals.
• 2:22
  Speaker: One has the potential for self-improvement by practicing, by doing whatever it is that we are pursuing.
• 2:33
  Speaker: More than just one time, but several times as we begin.
• 2:41
  Speaker: And as we continue, as we exhibit a sense of discipline and persistence, perseverance, we continue to practice more.
• 2:57
  Speaker: And in doing so, we hone the edge of our beings, of our abilities to do what we're setting out to accomplish, our goals, aspirations, self-affirmations of whom, what, where, when, why, and how we are, how we view the world.
• 3:26
  Speaker: It is a lot we do.
• 3:28
  Speaker: We find ourselves on the top of a pyramid of being, the very top.
• 3:35
  Speaker: And that which is beneath us is oftentimes possibly neglected or certainly most of the time ignored.
• 3:46
  Speaker: And yet it is the very foundation of our beings, alive, aware, participating.
• 3:55
  Speaker: In this world we are all in.
• 3:59
  Speaker: Yes, we have a perspective we can fall back upon and say, in response to these thoughts, oh, but you are looking around the periphery.
• 4:15
  Speaker: I'm speaking about looking inside.
• 4:20
  Speaker: It is easy to look in, or easier to look into a mirror and see the flesh one can see, but to consider everything beneath one's skin is of a much greater depth.
• 4:36
  Speaker: This is what we're talking about.
• 4:40
  Speaker: When one sees at an evening's opportunity of gazing into the sky and being able to see stars, what are we thinking?
• 4:55
  Speaker: Are we just being amazed, feeling a sense of reverence?
• 5:01
  Speaker: Awe?
• 5:02
  Speaker: Are we capturing this sense of not being overwhelmed but being contemplative of the size of our universe?
• 5:19
  Speaker: What of the depth of each one of these suns we're seeing afar?
• 5:26
  Speaker: The planets that may or may not revolve around this star, and the depth greater beyond is their life.
• 5:37
  Speaker: What is the physical, chemical composition of everything?
• 5:43
  Speaker: The planets, their atmospheres, if they have one, of the actual minerals and elements which are comprised and associated with these structures.
• 5:58
  Speaker: What are their ages?
• 6:00
  Speaker: What are their distances?
• 6:04
  Speaker: You see, it is all a different level of perception, of perceptivity.
• 6:12
  Speaker: What are you viewing?
• 6:13
  Speaker: Is it just a bunch of light dotting the sky?
• 6:19
  Speaker: What is the potential behind one's optic nerves relaying this sensitivity to one's brain, to one's left and right cerebrums?
• 6:34
  Speaker: It is amazing, for sure.
• 6:40
  Speaker: Doing the best we can, being here now, is a great beginning.
• 6:48
  Speaker: For finding one's own foundation gives us an opportunity to stand figuratively strong upon our foundation to be able to step up to move ahead, to even climb a ladder, because we have it securely planted.
• 7:15
  Speaker: This is a goal of accumulating enough mental discipline, fortitude, perseverance, objectivity, virtues, practice to be able to do this.
• 7:33
  Speaker: It is what separates greater degrees or lesser degrees of success, of self-realization, illumination, revelation.
• 7:46
  Speaker: What is the revelation one is having right now about oneself, framing it in such a way which it is positive, helpful, supportive, just like one's foundation of physicality.
• 8:10
  Speaker: This is a goal to know yourself, to know thyself well enough, to help oneself nurture, to help oneself grow in this life which we share.
• 8:26
  Speaker: It is this way, it can be this way, it is a goal.
• 8:35
  Speaker: One can seed in oneself and nurture and grow.
• 8:44
  Speaker: It is one's practice, it is what we are doing here in mindful meditation.
• 8:52
  Speaker: Bundles of miracles could be added to any and all names endowed by our Creator with a myriad of capabilities as defined by our DNAs.
• 9:16
  Speaker: Our DNA which is millions, billions of years old.
• 9:23
  Speaker: It is a succession of generations upon generations of all which has come before us over time upon this place, this planet, circumnavigating in an elliptical orbit around this sun, Sol, ninety-three million miles away.
• 9:54
  Speaker: That's us, allowing oneself to be kind and virtuous, to self-affirm within oneself strength of character, of possibility, of harmony, of cheerfulness and grace.
• 10:24
  Speaker: Feeling a sense of deep peace, a sense of fortitude, a sense of wonder at everything there is we can have a perspective on.
• 10:42
  Speaker: Science has given us reason to have an inkling of understanding about so much today, and so much more to become, to grow, utilizing our God-given talents to propel ourselves more.
• 11:09
  Speaker: This is what's going on in our world, generation by generation, century by century.
• 11:18
  Speaker: It is a positive momentum.
• 11:22
  Speaker: We need to keep track of it.
• 11:26
  Speaker: We need to discipline and facilitate a continuation of the harmony and grace of our world, not only inside of one's own being, in one's soul, in one's cave, in one's home, in one's meditation location.
• 11:46
  Speaker: It is in everywhere one can call home.
• 11:52
  Speaker: Being thankful.
• 11:55
  Speaker: For where we have come from, and where mankind's possibilities lie.
• 12:16
  Speaker: Each of us, certainly each of us here, are making steps in the right direction.
• 12:27
  Speaker: And yet it is easy to understand when we widen our perspective.
• 12:35
  Speaker: The way is not clear.
• 12:37
  Speaker: It is rocky in some places, and the path zigs and zags.
• 12:43
  Speaker: It is the way the universe is changing constantly.
• 12:50
  Speaker: We need be always flexible and adaptive, open to the changes going on, open-minded is the word used.
• 13:04
  Speaker: The music's going to continue for another minute, I am asking you to linger, considering these thoughts, this discussion, and wish you a fabulous day and weekend in smiling grace and satisfaction of one's progress in one's life.