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This Precious Human Birth
Reflecting on the amazing richness of life, the preciousness of our particular human birth, and the impermanence of everything leads to immense abundance in the present moment.
Transcript
[0:03] Let's practice.
[0:24] Taking our seat wherever we are. Right in the middle of this beautiful, challenging, powerful world. Arranging our body. Moving our legs and feet as necessary. Our hips, our lower back. Wriggling our spine. Our neck, our head. And allowing ourselves to come into this upright, uplifted and restful posture. Awake. Alert. And still.
[2:26] As to notice through the medium of contrast. By consciously choosing to be still. We can notice a little more clarity through the contrast. The motion of our mind.
[3:33] And just sitting. And through this contrast. Being aware of all our sense perceptions. Noticing the space around us. And the space within us.
[4:45] Noticing. That we can be just in the current moment. Using the doorway of our body. And our sense perceptions.
[5:26] Feeling this alertness. This awakeness. Aliveness. Through being still. What can we feel?
[6:09] Extending. Our perceptions into the world. Into the space. Not in the past. Or the future. In this very moment right now.
[7:11] Life there is all around us in this very moment. Our perceptions. The grass growing, probably pretty close to us. The crevices of pavement or parks. The individual leaves on trees. The incredible insects on those trees. The birds that come. And take them out. Under the earth. In the earth. On the ground. In the trees. The flowers. The small animals. The bacteria. Everywhere. This life force. Unfolding in this very moment. All around us. Within feet of us. And right inside. This body we call ours. The vastness. The teeming of life.
[9:59] Can you sense it? Can you feel it? Welling up inside you.
[10:33] And how precious. How precious is this moment. Is this life.
[11:08] This particular moment. Will never happen again. And how precious is our birth. And we get to be here. As part of this moment. How precious is a human birth. Within. The vastness of life. That's all around us right now. How precious. Is our birth.
[13:16] With this precious life.
[13:37] Just as the insects will die, the birds will die. A bacteria will die. So too we will die.
[14:19] But right now, in this moment, we have a precious human birth. And we have a precious life. In a precious moment.
[15:22] Is what we do now. There is no other time than now.
[15:58] In this precious moment. Of amazing, magical life. In a precious human birth.
[17:05] What do you feel flowing from your heart?
[18:00] Allowing that to flow. In the space around us.
[18:52] The space inside us, outside us, that perhaps is not so different. Inside and outside.
[19:23] As we sit and breathe. In this one precious moment that we have.
[20:03] Where we can choose. How we engage with life.
[20:49] Alert. Uplifted. And open.
[21:23] BELL RINGS
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