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What do We define Our Selves by (?) · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: I see all good people now.
• 0:02
  Speaker: What do we define ourselves by?
• 0:05
  Speaker: By being awake, by being aware, by the thoughts that stream through our minds.
• 0:12
  Speaker: Better, worse, more idealistic, more practical.
• 0:18
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:20
  Speaker: All sorts of things are streaming through our minds.
• 0:24
  Speaker: Perhaps one of the best things we can do is sense a direction towards humility.
• 0:31
  Speaker: Most likely we've made a lot of mistakes in our lives.
• 0:36
  Speaker: And most likely we will make a lot more.
• 0:42
  Speaker: Being receptive and allowing ourselves to not be perfect human beings is part of being wise and practical, realistic, authentic.
• 1:07
  Speaker: Allowing oneself just to be, to relax, to endure, to feel the warmth and the sensitivity of one's own physical being, one's body, one's bones, one's nerves, one's sinews, one's vessels, one's brains, one's everything, all of our organs, everything, all at once or as best as one can.
• 1:42
  Speaker: This is practice.
• 1:43
  Speaker: The more sensitive one becomes, the more you feel, the deeper you feel, the more levels one feels.
• 1:51
  Speaker: Being aware of our physicality, being aware of time and space, being aware of the way it interacts with us in our movements, in the force of gravity, of the pull of the moon, of the sun, being aware, of the stars, of the planets revolving in their own unique orbit, some shape or form, some configuration around us, surrounding our world.
• 2:30
  Speaker: Farther and closer, closer and farther.
• 2:37
  Speaker: They abound.
• 2:39
  Speaker: How many planets do we have as brothers and sisters, larger and smaller, eight or nine?
• 2:47
  Speaker: How many planets does one think there might be in our universe, our creation?
• 2:55
  Speaker: Trillions for sure.
• 2:58
  Speaker: Thinking out loud, how lucky we are to be living on a sphere inundated with water and oxygenated air.
• 3:11
  Speaker: We are very lucky and fortunate.
• 3:19
  Speaker: And if we begin with a sense of humility, of evaluating and gaining a sense of perspective of our reality, we come closer to what it means to actually be here.
• 3:54
  Speaker: How lucky we are.
• 3:57
  Speaker: Even in our own solar system, there is no other planet that is inhabitable by denizens or creatures like ourselves.
• 4:07
  Speaker: Just this one.
• 4:09
  Speaker: Planets can be more closely aligned in this sweet spot of allowing physicality, like our carbon-based evolution is based.
• 4:36
  Speaker: What does it mean?
• 4:47
  Speaker: It means the possibilities suggest there are other life forms on other spheres like our own.
• 4:56
  Speaker: Nearer and farther away.
• 5:01
  Speaker: That's all.
• 5:03
  Speaker: Take it, make it, be it as you wish.
• 5:08
  Speaker: I'm just saying this seems to be clear.
• 5:12
  Speaker: Not something really to say is doubtful.
• 5:19
  Speaker: It is like the evolution of our learning when we discovered that the earth, not being flat, was indeed round, a sphere.
• 5:27
  Speaker: It is like this.
• 5:28
  Speaker: It is foundational, it is practical, it is honest and sincere.
• 5:36
  Speaker: Be more in the times of what we know.
• 5:43
  Speaker: That's my suggestion, humbly said, is remembering life is like a kaleidoscope.
• 5:54
  Speaker: As we move through it, it is constantly changing.
• 6:00
  Speaker: The colors, the shadows, everything is changing.
• 6:06
  Speaker: And so too, then are the possibilities and the opportunities for us to take advantage of change, to have cathartic moments, to crystallize new concepts.
• 6:23
  Speaker: And it is such a time in the evolution of mankind, which is young.
• 6:32
  Speaker: Two to three hundred thousand years Homo sapiens have arrived.
• 6:41
  Speaker: It is time for us to step up again to become adults rather than mischievous teenagers.
• 6:52
  Speaker: Because we are teenagers with tools which can devastate our own world.
• 7:03
  Speaker: We don't want to have individuals who are irresponsible with such abilities.
• 7:11
  Speaker: We don't want people to think in this way.
• 7:14
  Speaker: We need to be pro-active to protect this planet we are stewards of.
• 7:25
  Speaker: And each other in our family of mankind, womankind, childkind.
• 7:33
  Speaker: We have a responsibility to do this.
• 7:38
  Speaker: When we find there is war and disease and famine in different places upon this small sphere in the wide sea of creation.
• 7:52
  Speaker: What is one's responsibility as we become more easily to be seen?
• 8:03
  Speaker: Wherever we are, it becomes increasingly clear.
• 8:08
  Speaker: Possibilities exist.
• 8:10
  Speaker: How then do we go forward?
• 8:14
  Speaker: Where are our institutions like the United Nations?
• 8:19
  Speaker: The League of Nations.
• 8:21
  Speaker: The list goes on.
• 8:26
  Speaker: Where are they?
• 8:27
  Speaker: When we need them to do something.
• 8:32
  Speaker: And if they are doing something, why isn't it known throughout the world of their effort?
• 8:40
  Speaker: Proclaimed, heralded as a good thing, as an example for aspirations of our family of Homo sapiens.
• 9:03
  Speaker: They should be.
• 9:05
  Speaker: If they are not, they must be.
• 9:13
  Speaker: For we have evolved into a civilization with many distortions and dis-eases, and we need to find a better way.
• 9:27
  Speaker: You speak of mindful meditation.
• 9:32
  Speaker: Because you have the time to meditate, because you have the comfort of life, you have chairs or clothes or blankets or pillows, or foam mats, or confessionals, or mosques, or cathedrals.
• 9:59
  Speaker: You have all of these things for one's prayers, for one's affirmations, of one's mindful meditations, of one's learning, of one's being curious, food to eat, refrigerators stocked, stores close by.
• 10:24
  Speaker: This is by and large our world.
• 10:26
  Speaker: And yet the very most important aspect is ignored, which is in the beginning, one's breath.
• 10:43
  Speaker: For without one's breath, there is nothing else.
• 10:47
  Speaker: We are gone in an instant when the air is gone.
• 10:55
  Speaker: Being here now, bundles of miracles.
• 11:04
  Speaker: It is a time for celebration and a time for reflection, too, of how we can each be better in our relationships with everyone, including oneself.
• 11:26
  Speaker: How we can improve what we are thinking when we are doing everything, no matter where, no matter when rising, expanding the event. namaste