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you are a unique island in our Universe · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: Sorry I missed yesterday.
• 0:03
  Speaker: I had an interlude with the bureaucracy of our governmental systems and spent half my day accomplishing very little except for reinforcing what I already have found many times is because of the nature of our federal and state and local municipal bureaucracy, dollars are misspent.
• 0:27
  Speaker: We need to run our offices in whatever part of our structure we have more efficiently.
• 0:35
  Speaker: And we can begin this by not having new hires in those areas where there's much less work than there are people to do it.
• 0:45
  Speaker: And so we need to balance things better.
• 0:48
  Speaker: This is benign, a way to do it in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.
• 0:55
  Speaker: Slowly decreasing the size of our government.
• 0:58
  Speaker: Enough.
• 0:59
  Speaker: Let your breath be your flowing remembering of the intricacy of what we're experiencing, of which we ignore most of.
• 1:30
  Speaker: Yet we keep a certain semblance of awareness, of activities, our sights, our senses, our sounds, our touches, our smells, we are involved in quite a number of different pain thresholds of our skin, you know, all these things, yes.
• 1:49
  Speaker: Our minds, our own thought processes and wanderings.
• 1:55
  Speaker: It is quite a bit that we handle, but in the relationship of the perspective of what we represent, each of us as an organism, it is nothing.
• 2:06
  Speaker: Not even, not even anything.
• 2:10
  Speaker: When one has thirty-seven trillion cells, that are in conversation, what are we talking about?
• 2:20
  Speaker: This alone dwarfs all being, and this is just inside one's own skin.
• 2:25
  Speaker: What about what's coming?
• 2:27
  Speaker: From the entirety of our universe, in every way, through one's feet, through one's scalp, everywhere.
• 2:39
  Speaker: There are trillions upon trillions upon trillions of interludes occurring simultaneously everywhere.
• 2:49
  Speaker: And we pick a few.
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  Speaker: So to being aware of this, that's all.
• 2:53
  Speaker: It's important that we concentrate on those that have been found to be most helpful to what?
• 3:01
  Speaker: To evolution, to the continuance and the growing complexity of this organism.
• 3:09
  Speaker: We call ourselves Homo sapiens.
• 3:11
  Speaker: Seeds of thoughts is what this is about.
• 3:15
  Speaker: Seeds of Zaran the Gardener.
• 3:19
  Speaker: Seeds.
• 3:20
  Speaker: And there are many ways to keep a flowing remembering or memory of our being through our physical activities, through our breathing, as suggested, through our breath.
• 3:33
  Speaker: It is enough to remember one's heart and soul.
• 3:43
  Speaker: How we come into our next moment is everything.
• 3:56
  Speaker: It is the dawn, it is the birth.
• 3:59
  Speaker: Where have you come from the moment past and what was going on there?
• 4:05
  Speaker: Being present is where we are.
• 4:18
  Speaker: The universe is, has already swallowed us.
• 4:25
  Speaker: We are floating like a star.
• 4:28
  Speaker: Each of us a being aware.
• 4:32
  Speaker: Some place, sometime, under a beautiful sky filled with water vapor clouds.
• 4:43
  Speaker: Look at the splendor of our being.
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  Speaker: This is just one side, one perspective.
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  Speaker: What about what's going on as this air we're viewing flowing inside of ourselves as our breath?
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  Speaker: Just this alone is enough to transport oneself in awe, in depth.
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  Speaker: In the flowing rhythm of one's long inhale.
• 5:18
  Speaker: Pause.
• 5:21
  Speaker: Exhale.
• 5:25
  Speaker: Pause.
• 5:29
  Speaker: And beginning again and remembering again and again.
• 5:35
  Speaker: For surely each of us will turn our attention to something else.
• 5:41
  Speaker: Our focus will necessarily change.
• 5:44
  Speaker: And to remember is a positive beginning.
• 5:49
  Speaker: Remembering this.
• 5:50
  Speaker: It is the beginning of a positive momentum.
• 5:55
  Speaker: Don't crush it with remorse.
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  Speaker: Welcome it with curiosity.
• 6:00
  Speaker: Okay, what can I do?
• 6:02
  Speaker: Do both.
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  Speaker: Whatever you're thinking about, do it.
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  Speaker: And then remembering at the same token, your breath.
• 6:10
  Speaker: This is wisdom.
• 6:12
  Speaker: It is not mine.
• 6:15
  Speaker: It is age old.
• 6:18
  Speaker: Know thyself.
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  Speaker: This is where it begins.
• 6:23
  Speaker: Behind the veneer of one's skin.
• 6:27
  Speaker: Different perspectives we share.
• 6:31
  Speaker: Just being aware of your breath.
• 6:38
  Speaker: Changes the momentum of one's being.
• 6:44
  Speaker: This is really what is behind all this.
• 6:49
  Speaker: It is not just one's four-part harmony of breathing, although it is everything, literally.
• 6:58
  Speaker: It is to soothe and calm one's soul.
• 7:02
  Speaker: To help one make an effort to find one's own foundation.
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  Speaker: One's glowing, vibrating, shimmering ocean of being.
• 7:20
  Speaker: We can call it that.
• 7:23
  Speaker: Thirty-seven trillion cells.
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  Speaker: I think it's appropriate.
• 7:28
  Speaker: Each of us.
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  Speaker: And in a sense, also an island in a universe of which we are a part.
• 7:39
  Speaker: Each of us.
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  Speaker: A distinct individual, unique island of consciousness called self.
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  Speaker: Part of an ocean.
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  Speaker: An ocean inside.
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  Speaker: Just being open, curious, accepting, flowing.
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  Speaker: With the dynamics of being alive, coming back to one's breathing.
• 8:14
  Speaker: Adding in one's pulsing.
• 8:17
  Speaker: Adding in the feeling of the pulsing as it undulates through one's body in waves.
• 8:26
  Speaker: Feeling one's warmth.
• 8:30
  Speaker: These are steps along a way.
• 8:33
  Speaker: It is the journey of one's life.
• 8:36
  Speaker: It is happening tens upon tens of tens of thousands of times a day.
• 8:44
  Speaker: And you're just being aware of it, more aware of it.
• 8:52
  Speaker: And this is what we can physically call our foundation.
• 8:57
  Speaker: Again and again and again.
• 9:03
  Speaker: It is as close as these words.
• 9:06
  Speaker: Opportunities abound.
• 9:11
  Speaker: It is why practice is not in a specific small segment of time.
• 9:18
  Speaker: Of course, recharge one's battery.
• 9:22
  Speaker: Plug in.
• 9:23
  Speaker: Vibrate one's consciousness.
• 9:26
  Speaker: Share.
• 9:27
  Speaker: Communicate.
• 9:29
  Speaker: This is a human way.
• 9:30
  Speaker: This is our social being.
• 9:35
  Speaker: Our structure.
• 9:37
  Speaker: The way mankind works.
• 9:39
  Speaker: Breathing, not with a sense of complacency, with a sense of alertness, of a heightening in one's awareness to a greater perspective, inclusive of a greater sensitivity to what's going on inside and outside.
• 10:15
  Speaker: Our being.
• 10:17
  Speaker: One grows.
• 10:37
  Speaker: One goes to school inside of one's own being.
• 10:41
  Speaker: Keep studying, practicing.
• 10:45
  Speaker: If you only do it for ten minutes a day, you only get ten minutes a day's worth of value.
• 10:55
  Speaker: If you do it less frequency than every day, then you diminish the value even more.
• 11:06
  Speaker: When you do it more than one time a day, two or three times a day, or more continually, then the rate of one's prospering will increase, become second nature, become one's habit.
• 11:30
  Speaker: Perfection, the world, the universe are always slipping and sliding, changing in every moment of this long flowing river of time.
• 11:45
  Speaker: We live within.
• 11:47
  Speaker: So I think perfection is constantly also changing, and it is always before us.
• 11:56
  Speaker: It is our goals, it is the changing nature of our universe.
• 12:00
  Speaker: Perfection is a impossibility, one might say.