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Half Empty, Half Full · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: I see all good people everywhere.
• 0:05
  Speaker: Is it better to have one's glass half empty or half full?
• 0:14
  Speaker: This is a basic personality question.
• 0:19
  Speaker: Its importance is crucial for one's way of looking upon our world.
• 0:27
  Speaker: Half empty, half full.
• 0:30
  Speaker: We are choosing which of these it is in every moment of our lives, based upon extraneous circumstances and our own.
• 0:43
  Speaker: Everything has an effect on what the next moment is going to hold before it is gone...
• 0:52
  Speaker: And the next moment arrives.
• 0:55
  Speaker: When we start parceling up our day in such a way, in increments, in little bits and pieces, how many more opportunities do we each possess to fulfill our tasks?
• 1:14
  Speaker: Enhance ourselves.
• 1:17
  Speaker: We share.
• 1:22
  Speaker: If it is someone else, they can change.
• 1:47
  Speaker: Especially if you see they could benefit with all humility, with a sense of kindness and compassion, empathy.
• 1:57
  Speaker: We are social creatures.
• 1:59
  Speaker: This is the way that we interact with each other.
• 2:03
  Speaker: One way of interacting.
• 2:05
  Speaker: Being here now.
• 2:12
  Speaker: Someone is tapping in the next apartment.
• 2:15
  Speaker: So you hear the tapping?
• 2:17
  Speaker: I certainly do.
• 2:18
  Speaker: But we make the best of it.
• 2:20
  Speaker: Thank you.
• 2:22
  Speaker: These are the unforeseen circumstances of a moment.
• 2:26
  Speaker: And how again do we respond?
• 2:29
  Speaker: Are we annoyed by these noises?
• 2:32
  Speaker: No, we are accepting them.
• 2:34
  Speaker: They are part of our environment.
• 2:38
  Speaker: When we come together, we say to ourselves, I am coming in a certain posture and undisturbed.
• 2:48
  Speaker: And we do the best we can.
• 2:51
  Speaker: We might just grow a little bit better if we can pause and ask ourselves why, how?
• 3:02
  Speaker: Who?
• 3:04
  Speaker: What?
• 3:05
  Speaker: When?
• 3:07
  Speaker: Where is everything happening?
• 3:10
  Speaker: What is going on this moment on time?
• 3:14
  Speaker: Why am I here?
• 3:17
  Speaker: What is going on?
• 3:19
  Speaker: What are my circumstances?
• 3:22
  Speaker: Are they dim?
• 3:24
  Speaker: Are they clear?
• 3:26
  Speaker: Do I see goals in my future or is it dark and unknown?
• 3:34
  Speaker: Is one joyful?
• 3:35
  Speaker: Is one fearful?
• 3:37
  Speaker: How do we hold our heads?
• 3:41
  Speaker: Our torsos, our bodies.
• 3:44
  Speaker: How do we breathe?
• 3:47
  Speaker: How do we eat?
• 3:48
  Speaker: How do we converse?
• 3:50
  Speaker: How do we do whatever we do in our moments during our day?
• 3:56
  Speaker: Looking in at everything all the time.
• 4:03
  Speaker: And you will find an awakening of just how much potential is there.
• 4:15
  Speaker: 86,400 moments.
• 4:20
  Speaker: To arrive at the beginning of your next day, your next set of eighty-six thousand four hundred more moments.
• 4:28
  Speaker: Yes.
• 4:29
  Speaker: And every eleven or twelve days you find a million moments have passed in one's life.
• 4:38
  Speaker: A million moments in a dozen days.
• 4:42
  Speaker: When someone says, Oh, I can't change, no.
• 4:49
  Speaker: They haven't learned how to change in a more positive manner.
• 4:56
  Speaker: We all need help practicing.
• 4:59
  Speaker: Stay aware.
• 5:01
  Speaker: One small step at a time, allowing oneself to just be calm and find peace.
• 5:09
  Speaker: Nothing more than this.
• 5:11
  Speaker: Allowing oneself to be in a comfortable posture.
• 5:16
  Speaker: Common sense.
• 5:17
  Speaker: Be comfortable.
• 5:19
  Speaker: Undisturbed so that there isn't a racket in your ear like someone hammering next door.
• 5:25
  Speaker: Allowing everything to be as it is, being here now.
• 5:32
  Speaker: Feeling one's skin.
• 5:34
  Speaker: The heat emanating through one's skin.
• 5:37
  Speaker: Feeling one's clothes or lack of them.
• 5:41
  Speaker: Feeling whatever environment one is in, feeling calm, tranquil.
• 5:50
  Speaker: This word.
• 5:52
  Speaker: Feeling inside of one's mind a sensitivity of potential in one's auditory nerves.
• 6:03
  Speaker: Are the synapses and receptors flashing with energy, waiting for something to arrive?
• 6:14
  Speaker: Do you feel a sense of a shimmering vibration going on?
• 6:21
  Speaker: You might.
• 6:23
  Speaker: It is in part why it is so easy to consider ourselves as bundles of miracles.
• 7:24
  Speaker: For we are.
• 7:26
  Speaker: This is just one respiration process.
• 7:30
  Speaker: We could go on.
• 7:35
  Speaker: I'm going to bid you ado, thinking about these things, coming into your own terms, being your own meditator, following your physiology.
• 7:46
  Speaker: Shimmer.
• 7:50
  Speaker: The music's continuing for another minute.
• 7:55
  Speaker: Ponder.
• 7:57
  Speaker: Your being.