Latest / Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness / Sprouting into the light

Transcript

Sprouting into the light · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: I see all good people now.
• 0:02
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:05
  Speaker: Yes, always so good to be alive.
• 0:12
  Speaker: Means we have an opportunity to thrive in this day.
• 0:17
  Speaker: We are alive again.
• 0:19
  Speaker: We can visualize in our minds ourselves as seeds sprouting in the sunlight of the day, the dawning of the day.
• 0:31
  Speaker: We can remember whom we are.
• 0:35
  Speaker: We can answer Thomas Wilson's six questions and have a fairly good recollection of what's going on.
• 0:46
  Speaker: Preparing ourselves literally, figuratively, for anything.
• 0:53
  Speaker: It's powerful.
• 0:57
  Speaker: And it's common sense.
• 0:59
  Speaker: It doesn't get better than this.
• 1:02
  Speaker: It is simple, honest, authentic.
• 1:08
  Speaker: This is why we're doing it.
• 1:11
  Speaker: This is why I do it and share it with you.
• 1:15
  Speaker: It's important.
• 1:16
  Speaker: Mankind needs to step up more than we have.
• 1:23
  Speaker: More important now than ever before.
• 1:27
  Speaker: Because the tools at our disposal are more powerful.
• 1:32
  Speaker: And we all know the stories.
• 1:35
  Speaker: Atomic energy.
• 1:37
  Speaker: Even swarms and clusters of drones.
• 1:41
  Speaker: Being here now is merely a beginning.
• 1:48
  Speaker: Be here now is not difficult when evolution has afforded one the capacity to be alive.
• 1:58
  Speaker: And we can see this in all the different species which have evolved on this planet.
• 2:05
  Speaker: And yet, with a greater sense of perspective, we can also see most of the species which have evolved on this world have perished.
• 2:19
  Speaker: The variety is different, but in a sense of looking at it as a totality, it is greatly reduced.
• 2:31
  Speaker: We've had five mass extinctions already, wherein at the minimum seventy-five percent of all life was extinguished in these events.
• 2:44
  Speaker: In each one.
• 2:46
  Speaker: Maybe more, depending on which one.
• 2:51
  Speaker: Five of them.
• 2:53
  Speaker: So being here now is a great beginning, but this is all it is.
• 3:03
  Speaker: It is what one does when one begins to acknowledge one's own presence.
• 3:09
  Speaker: Fundamentally, virtuosity becomes very important.
• 3:17
  Speaker: Whom are you?
• 3:22
  Speaker: What are you?
• 3:23
  Speaker: Why are you?
• 3:25
  Speaker: Where are you?
• 3:27
  Speaker: When and how are you?
• 3:30
  Speaker: These six questions of the famous rhetorician who verbalized and immortalized his thinking in the year of fifteen sixty, explaining these concepts of how to evaluate any subject.
• 3:52
  Speaker: What is the most important thing?
• 3:57
  Speaker: What is the first one?
• 3:59
  Speaker: The most important thing that one can do.
• 4:02
  Speaker: Remember whom you or I, who we are.
• 4:10
  Speaker: What does this mean to do?
• 4:13
  Speaker: To remember your ego?
• 4:15
  Speaker: Okay.
• 4:16
  Speaker: It's important, but it is only a part of whom one is.
• 4:26
  Speaker: The perspective should include the awareness of our evolution.
• 4:33
  Speaker: The reflection should include the perspective of the universe's immensity.
• 4:44
  Speaker: Then one begins to grasp a greater knowledge of what is.
• 4:56
  Speaker: What is the most important thing one can do?
• 5:00
  Speaker: Remember whom one is.
• 5:07
  Speaker: Better to be done with a greater sense and degree of awareness, of purpose.
• 5:59
  Speaker: What is going on?
• 6:05
  Speaker: This is primally important.
• 6:10
  Speaker: This desire, this objective, is made more interesting because time is constantly changing like a kaleidoscope.
• 6:24
  Speaker: It is turning as each new moment evolves, arrives.
• 6:30
  Speaker: And this is part of our consideration.
• 6:34
  Speaker: It is not only the concept of evolution and the expanding nature of our universe of creation.
• 6:43
  Speaker: It is in the details.
• 6:47
  Speaker: It is when all of this is occurring.
• 6:54
  Speaker: And it is occurring right now, as these words flow from my lips into one's ears, as a communication is taking place.
• 7:07
  Speaker: Are we appreciative?
• 7:11
  Speaker: Are we even aware of what this means?
• 7:16
  Speaker: How the words pass through the air rich enough to carry sound, that we are cognizant enough to hear and interpret the meaning, the symbology of the words being expressed.
• 7:37
  Speaker: Do we have enough experience we can understand the nuances in speech, the pauses, the accents?
• 7:50
  Speaker: There's a lot.
• 7:53
  Speaker: And yet it is all simple.
• 7:56
  Speaker: Evolution has developed us over millions of years to facilitate these capabilities.
• 8:08
  Speaker: Not to shy away, but to embrace, to imbue ourselves with our potential.
• 8:18
  Speaker: What is the most important thing one can do?
• 8:23
  Speaker: Remember whom we are.
• 8:27
  Speaker: that's the first W.
• 8:32
  Speaker: What! The second W is When.
• 8:36
  Speaker: In every moment changing is occurring.
• 8:41
  Speaker: So one needs to be remembering, reminding oneself often during one's day.
• 8:54
  Speaker: A hundred times a day means every fourteen or fifteen minutes we are pausing and refreshing our being.
• 9:07
  Speaker: It is not one wants to meditate for fifteen minutes, and having accomplished this task, this awareness of our gift of being alive, and then be one and done.
• 9:24
  Speaker: Thinking, Now I can get back to the other parts of my being, my other in quote responsibilities.
• 9:33
  Speaker: No.
• 9:33
  Speaker: It is better to be aware once every fifteen minutes for a few moments.
• 9:43
  Speaker: It is continuity we are seeking.
• 9:46
  Speaker: We are seeking flowing awareness, recognition of the majesty and the magnificence of creation.
• 9:59
  Speaker: If we meditate and do our practice in a short span of time, one percent of our day, which fifteen minutes represents.
• 10:15
  Speaker: Where are we? Continuous?
• 11:03
  Speaker: The third W.
• 11:08
  Speaker: What, when, yes, it's where, everywhere! In every place.
• 11:14
  Speaker: Comfortable, of course, is better than being uncomfortable.
• 11:18
  Speaker: But maybe being uncomfortable is the beginning of finding one's comfort again.
• 11:24
  Speaker: It is more in the ability to have an aha moment, a reflection, a reminder to oneself.
• 11:34
  Speaker: Why, number four, am I this way?
• 11:36
  Speaker: Why am I dis-eased?
• 11:38
  Speaker: I know there is a better way.
• 11:42
  Speaker: Creating the conditions as much as one can, being mindful it is not always going to be easy or the way we want it to be.
• 11:52
  Speaker: This is where having virtue comes in.
• 11:56
  Speaker: To be patient, to be understanding, to have compassion, to find empathy, to understand our environment, our current situation.
• 12:09
  Speaker: Being kind, aware are our goals.
• 12:16
  Speaker: In the present moment, in our current circumstances, to be a better part of what's going on, of being able to evaluate and participate and to add to the confluence of events as they are occurring.
• 12:43
  Speaker: Who?
• 12:47
  Speaker: The last W.
• 12:50
  Speaker: We started with what, when, where, why, and number five, who.
• 12:59
  Speaker: This is a question a hundred years ago or a little bit more.
• 13:05
  Speaker: A famous yogi guru expoused this view of asking oneself the question of who am I?
• 13:15
  Speaker: Well, we've added five more to that.
• 13:18
  Speaker: Because we want to know the whole thing.
• 13:22
  Speaker: We want to understand the entirety of our being, or as much or better as we can.
• 13:33
  Speaker: So the who is you and I.
• 13:38
  Speaker: And as far as who am I, meaning as a species, Homo sapiens.
• 13:47
  Speaker: Well, it's all part of the same five W's and one H.
• 13:53
  Speaker: It is we are a part of this whole.
• 13:58
  Speaker: We are a part of the energy of creation.
• 14:03
  Speaker: We are all of the things we have been talking about.
• 14:10
  Speaker: And more.
• 14:14
  Speaker: The more one visualizes and remembers, the more one finds.
• 14:20
  Speaker: Because how many moments do we each have in a day?
• 14:25
  Speaker: Eighty-six thousand four hundred moments, distinct moments of awareness.
• 14:34
  Speaker: Multiply that out by a week, by a month, by a year.
• 14:40
  Speaker: All of these moments are recorded in one's mind.
• 14:46
  Speaker: Some more vibrantly, some less.
• 14:52
  Speaker: And how?
• 14:55
  Speaker: How do we accomplish what we set before ourselves?
• 15:02
  Speaker: How do we fit in with virtuosity, with the desire and the goal to implement channels and means of self-improvement, of becoming aware of characteristics, of qualities, which in their pursuit helps us become better Homo sapiens.
• 15:32
  Speaker: This is the entirety of what we need to know.
• 15:40
  Speaker: These six questions.
• 15:43
  Speaker: We can find our roles as Homo sapiens.
• 15:49
  Speaker: The music continues for another minute.
• 15:53
  Speaker: My recommendation is to ponder a little bit longer in your own thoughts, and to be smiling, be gracious, be kind unto your own self, and to practice all day.
• 16:13
  Speaker: In every new moment remembering is our goal.
• 16:18
  Speaker: I and you are here now, bundles of miracles, humbled before this immensity we've been talking about.
• 16:32
  Speaker: This universe traveling at a million miles an hour in expansion.
• 16:38
  Speaker: Thankful for waking up, for having another moment to play, to smile, to rise, to shine. namaste