Stop (pause), Look, Listen

it is what we do, knowingly or not

better to be done with a sense of awareness

learn how

oh! it takes practice

so, don't expect instantly to be in a perpetual state of wisdom

it can be, but the odds say "changing one's habits takes energy"

which is the accumulation of attention or effort...

you've just been given a key, think about this

how you proceed determines

one's life,

your life and mine

Transcript

Speaker 0:00

Good morning. We may or may not be aware of this, but here's a common phrase I'm familiar with, I don't use it all the time, but stop, look, and listen. It's almost like we're crossing a road. And in a sense, we can look at this as if it's the road of life. So we stop or pause to acknowledge where we are. We use our senses, we look, we acclimate ourselves to our relative position in the ways that we're considering. And listen. We're listening outwardly and inwardly to what our mind has to say about these previous two, our circumstances. And where we find ourselves is in a moment. We find ourselves here now. Allowing one's hands to gently come together, gently clasping each other, feeling the warmth inside, the ambiance of life, allowing oneself just to be and relax. As a witness, objective, just letting things relax, become, kind, understanding, having a degree of patience and compassion. These attributes go a long way to helping us make it through our days. Because we, or many of us, have so many goals, our days are cluttered with successes and failures, because we are overwhelmed with the amount and/or the possibilities of what can be done in this twenty first century, where I am speaking from. What to do about all these things. When we gaze figuratively into our various kinds of environments or goings on, we see what mankind is doing. We can see that there are good things happening as well as bad. There are exciting potentials and there are harrowing disappointments. When will we find ourselves righting our "ships of life" to better guide ourselves individually, as groups, as larger groups, and as a world to a more harmonious scenario of getting along with each other? It's an important question for each of us to ask. For each of us to make our own personal contribution to the whole. To be understanding and kind, cooperative, collaborative in our conversations. It is not easy to do this. It is much easier just to say the words. It is more difficult to find oneself looking deeper and looking at oneself as one responds. What are my prejudices? How am I making possible judgments when without even a consideration these habits which have been formed rise and immediately come to my mind? How do I put aside my bigotry? How do I put aside everything I've learned in this short span of time we call our lives? This is really the crux of the matter, one could say.

Speaker 4:09

Being here now, bundles of miracles. One of the things that I am certain of is that indeed we are bundles of miracles. The more we look inside of ourselves in a sense of self-analysis of just even our physicality, it is one thing after another that is amazing, miraculous. And I'm asking you to do the same thing. I'm asking you to look at yourself, to feel the warmth emanating from our bodies. I'm asking you to just be a witness and be aware at the same time, open-minded, non-committed to one way of thinking or another. Just be here in the present without prejudice, just being curious, and being kind to oneself and to everything else we're aware of in this universe, which is a lot, and just wondering what is going on, why. In my own investigation, it seems the universe is becoming increasingly complex as what we call time proceeds within this framework of reality, of time and space, motion. We are poised in such a position to take advantage of everything we have learned and now know.

Speaker 5:58

At this moment in time, in this accumulation of evolutionary circumstances, we are here now, aware of our being bundles of miracles. The potential is before us through this experience of wisdom, of record keeping, deliberate and otherwise, we know so much more about ourselves and about our world, even about our universe. What do we do with this information we share? How can we help ourselves become better stewards of ourselves, of our planets, of our species, of all life upon this world? This is a dialogue to have with oneself when one pauses, when one looks, listens to the universe without judgment as a witness. These are questions that are timeless. The answers are blowing in the wind. They are everywhere. One's perception has a great deal to do with the answers and the responses we would offer ourselves or those around us and our societies. We need to offer our children the tools and the accumulated wisdom we have in our possession today. This dawning of the Aquarian age for Homo sapiens is such an opportunity. Thinking about these things, about one's breath, about one's pulse, about one's thermal energy, about the shimmering, shuddering, vibrating, ecstatic being that each of us is, we are. Being here now, bundles of miracles, humbled in the immensity of creation, thankful for having a part. The music continues for another minute. Enjoy your day. Being receptive, responsive to one's own awakening, to one's greater self-realization, namaste