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Seeking Harmony & Grace (?) · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

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  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: Nice to be here.
• 0:02
  Speaker: Nice to have woken up this morning.
• 0:08
  Speaker: Become alert enough to ascertain there are things that can be done in our world.
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  Speaker: We can begin in such a manner as to help propel ourselves into greater states of being, of a greater ability to be inclusive of what we need do, of having a better idea.
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  Speaker: You might call this mindful meditation.
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  Speaker: You could also call it common sense.
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  Speaker: You could also call it an aspiration for self-improvement.
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  Speaker: All apply to this.
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  Speaker: Those in our community, those of our world.
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  Speaker: Because we need to be honest.
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  Speaker: We need to realize the merits we each possess and the potential of faults.
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  Speaker: It is not hard to find examples of all of these different things.
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  Speaker: It is in the news and the personalities are here for us to examine in a state of non-biased witnessing, consideration in every way, in every shape, in every form.
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  Speaker: We see the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly.
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  Speaker: We see it all.
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  Speaker: What does one want to perceive within the context of one's individuality and one's own mind is another matter altogether.
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  Speaker: Judge not that ye be not judged.
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  Speaker: Know thyself.
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  Speaker: To thine own self be true.
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  Speaker: To be true to oneself means to be true to your family.
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  Speaker: It means to be true to your community.
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  Speaker: The community at hand in one's neighborhood, expanding to the community of our world.
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  Speaker: There are a great many instances where people uphold this concept, these virtues that are needed for this attainment.
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  Speaker: This is not necessarily coming easy.
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  Speaker: Then there are those who would abuse and use and otherwise denigrate the value of any and everything except their own selves, their own desires.
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  Speaker: This is what greed is, egotism in more extreme forms.
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  Speaker: What does all of this have to do with mindful meditation?
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  Speaker: It has a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker: What do you think mindful meditation is?
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  Speaker: A state of peace, of calm?
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  Speaker: A state of harmony and grace.
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  Speaker: Is this what you see and feel in our world today?
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  Speaker: So incumbent upon each of us then is to harbor a desire to increase this harmony and grace.
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  Speaker: You don't do it by sticking one's head in the sand and ignoring what's occurring.
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  Speaker: You deal with your day to day and work in a methodical path to improve oneself, one's family, one's community, mankind, Homo sapiens, all of our world.
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  Speaker: It is not us exclusive, it is us sharing a world no one owns.
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  Speaker: For lives, all of which are a gift from something more than any one of us, although each of us is a part of the whole.
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  Speaker: Yes, be comfortable, seated.
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  Speaker: First recommendation.
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  Speaker: Undisturbed, number two.
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  Speaker: Starting to become even more aware of one's physicality, number three.
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  Speaker: Just let this play out, becoming aware of the heat emanating from one's body, easy enough.
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  Speaker: Or cold.
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  Speaker: Being aware of beneath the skin a sensation of the pulse as one's heart squeezes oxygenated blood through one's arteries and veins.
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  Speaker: Being aware of these, just these two beginning functions, processes of one disseminating heat and one feeling one's pulse.
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  Speaker: Oh.
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  Speaker: Feeling one's body gently swaying with the energy of this cardiovascular action going on twenty-four hours a day.
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  Speaker: Ninety thousand squeezing actions of one's heart muscle every day.
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  Speaker: Taking nothing for granted now, mindful meditators, we are, and one's breathing.
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  Speaker: Add this in breathing long and slow.
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  Speaker: Why?
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  Speaker: calming, tranquility rising, harmony, grace.
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  Speaker: It is all here, always.
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  Speaker: It is you and I, it is us which are absent.
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  Speaker: We need not be, carry within oneself one's own aura of peace, civility, compassion, empathy, kindness, understanding for oneself, for everyone, for everything, understanding.
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  Speaker: That does not mean to kowtow to behaviors or activities one doesn't approve of, believe in.
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  Speaker: It means to be understanding of where this might have come from and how in our own way we can help change for the better the environment we are in.
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  Speaker: This is the responsibility each of us shares.
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  Speaker: Senient beings, Homo sapiens, we can help affect what's going on.
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  Speaker: We can help improve our world.
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  Speaker: Not only can we do this, we have a responsibility to be stewards of our world.
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  Speaker: Or our world may very well indeed stop functioning as we would wish it to.
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  Speaker: We see already issues with our climate.
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  Speaker: When, if ever do we wake up before it is too late?
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  Speaker: We think we know so much, and we do, and yet remembering, perhaps there is more to understand, to grasp.
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  Speaker: How long has Homo sapiens been upon this earth?
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  Speaker: A couple of hundred thousand years.
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  Speaker: Evolutionary scientists say this, this final development of our capacity.
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  Speaker: Yes, there's a long line before that of evolving primates, different kinds of humans, and yet a couple of hundred thousand years is a consensus.
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  Speaker: And during this time of evolutionary progression, what do you think happened, let's say a hundred and fifty thousand years ago?
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  Speaker: Do you think just possibly there were other great civilizations before our own, Atlantis myth, which keeps rising in our consciousness?
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  Speaker: Do you think maybe this was a civilization went wrong, lost its way, or had some kind of natural cataclysmic event, or is it just something imaginative in the get-go?
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  Speaker: What do you think?
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  Speaker: How do you think the pyramids were built in Egypt?
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  Speaker: How do you think some of the unexplainable things of our past we have records of, came into be-ing, one shape, way, or form?
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  Speaker: How do you think this occurred?
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  Speaker: By magic?
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  Speaker: Being open-minded is important.
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  Speaker: If you're asking me what I believe or think, I don't know.
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  Speaker: I'm just raising these questions.
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  Speaker: But I do know.
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  Speaker: There are items we can look upon in our world.
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  Speaker: We cannot understand how they were fabricated without scientific achievements, capabilities which we don't even possess today.
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  Speaker: So how was this done?
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  Speaker: Did you listen to the phrases in this last paragraph?
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  Speaker: Unbeknownst to our technology, there are tombs in Egypt fabricated beyond the capability of mankind today, in the year 2026, built thousands of years ago.
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  Speaker: What does this say to you?
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  Speaker: That I'm wrong?
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  Speaker: I'm not asking you to believe me, I never am.
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  Speaker: I'm asking you, if you have a question, because you are being non-judgmental, to research it yourself.
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  Speaker: And when you find the answer, to be humble before the possibility, it might just be possible.
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  Speaker: Mankind is like everything else in this universe oscillating up and down, and we have oscillated up before, and we have oscillated back down as well.
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  Speaker: And now we are oscillating back up again.
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  Speaker: Do we cut this off or do we make little steps, benchmarks, to help us continue on an upward trajectory even when we oscillate back down?
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  Speaker: Where are we in the sense of evolution?
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  Speaker: Because it is what each of us, all of us are, evolutionary in nature.
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  Speaker: We spoke of two hundred thousand years of Homo sapiens.
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  Speaker: This is evolution.
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  Speaker: We're talking about DNA, same.
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  Speaker: We're talking about the formation of our solar system, same.
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  Speaker: Of the universe, the same.
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  Speaker: Mindful meditation encompasses everything under the sun, and the sun shines in every direction.
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  Speaker: Being here now, opening one's heart, one's mind, one's potential, taking little steps of self-improvement, of recognition there is more, more possibilities for self-improvement.
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  Speaker: The music continues for another minute, please ponder how lucky we are, and how much more we need do.