Three Phrases (?)

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It is not idle pursuit, it is to help one change one's   Life...      

the cost is only one's time and you have a lot, everyday, 86,400 seconds or moments as I prefer to call them.         

think, it is the beginning of a new YOU

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I see all good people now. Mindful meditation. What is mindful meditation but communication? One is communicating to themselves. Possibly in a group environment one is communicating with those around themselves, and certainly this is occurring. Verbal, nonverbal cues, or possibly a teacher helping others learning, just having a get together. We are social animals. We like to do this. And we can utilize each other's experience to improve, to take to our advantage that which has been learned from others' experience. So it's all good. And it makes me lead up to this thought of communication again in the way of phrases or sayings that have accumulated over time and have withstood the vagaries of time. They have continued, that they haven't been forgotten. And there's three that come to my mind. And it's not a sacred saying, uh, not to me anyway. It's more of a philosophy, of philosophical sayings, which have importance, a great deal of importance in my thinking, and most likely in your own. And sayings that are sometimes elusive, but we should always have on the tip of our tongue because of their value, because of their importance. The first of the three is judge not that ye be not judged. I'm sure you've heard it, that you're familiar with this saying, and for decades my own understanding of this saying from when I first became aware of it as a child, up through again, decades, multiple numbers of ten years, probably for sixty years, was in the simplistic version of "if you go around and judge people, you may find yourself being judged by others." And therefore, it is better not to be judgmental that one won't themselves be judged. And so this was my understanding. And not so long ago, certainly I think within the last ten years, one day it dawned on me, I was missing an important aspect of this saying. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Because it was internal that one could also look at this, not external, not in thinking about others in positive or negative ways. And it is usually the negative way we're talking about in this something along these lines. And the internal way is perhaps even more important, and of course, I had not thought about this for all these years. That if one is so easily judging others, then one is also easily judging oneself. This is in essence a bad thing to do in a negative way. It's good to be realistic, it's good to be honest and sincere. It's important to be authentic with one's understanding of one's own being, to acknowledge and begin to find accepting one's errors, mistakes, lackings, ignorance, to be awakened and set out to learn and correct and improve. What way can we do this? By being negative towards oneself or being more positive? By being angry or cruel or disappointed, or by being kind and gentle and helpful, filled with understanding and compassion. Which do you think? Of course, it is easy to ascertain that it is better and one will get more out of something if it is done in a positive way, for lasting change, for change without the need for negativity to be included. Judge not that ye be not judged is a two-sided phrase, one for the exterior and one for the interior. Food for thought, thinking about this. It is a good meditation subject to consider. The second saying which has withstood the test of time. Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you. This is about a sense of virtuosity and a means of determining in oneself of how to act, of how to think. If one really or actually investigates this proposition, thinking of all the different scams that are going on today, identity theft, etc. Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you, or robberies, or worse. Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you. It is a basis, a foundation upon which one can build counteracting virtues, rules of behavior for oneself. This is what it is for. It is a guide. Hmm. Would this be something that I would want someone else to do than to make this quick buck I'm thinking of? Would I be disappointed or angry or sad if this was to occur to me, then why would I do it to you? Poignant. Important. Because in today's time there are many who are not thinking this way. And the third is the simple phrase, know thyself. It is what we're doing every day. Not only in mindful meditation, but in every moment we're playing, flowing through the eighty-six thousand four hundred moments we share in a day. Know thyself. To thine own self be true. But who are you if you don't inquire? One needs to learn about oneself. And in mindful meditation, it is a vehicle to do this. We set up a vehicle full of virtuosity, or with the desire to acquire virtuosity, with goals, aspirations to be kind and understanding, to have empathy and compassion, to utilize experience and our wisdom, our maturity to help us fathom a better understanding and behavior of the way we view things. Mindful meditation. It is a communication we are guiding ourselves in. It is all it is. It is this communication internalized and externalized by our outward behavior, right? Referring back to judge not that ye be not judged or do unto others as ye would have them do unto you. It is a stew of philosophy and thoughts of communication. And it is the reason why practice is so important to imbue everything we can with these thoughts, helping them flow ceaselessly through our conscious and unconscious minds. Practice brings improvement. Being here now, aware, awake, alive, beginning to feel in oneself this sense of being a bundle of miracles, awakening and stretching one's mind, one's physicality, utilizing our better senses of judgment to help guide us, correlating all we can for self-improvement, and being humbled by this awakening we're sharing. We see there is so much more than just trudging through a day. There are infinite possibilities in every direction we can imagine or see. And being thankful, we have enough gumption to be aware in the first place, to plant seeds of encouragement and self-illumination. We might see and accept, explore, be curious and joyful and become being here now, a bundle of miracles. Amongst all the different miracles we can find, be it a crystal found in the earth, or a seed on a flower, or the birth of an animal, a fish, a bird, an insect. Being thankful for being a part of this because no one or no thing has had to have to make this happen. It is all a gift. Think about the evolution of one's DNA. Being grateful. Thinking about these things. The music's continuing for another minute. Please ponder. Consider our good fortune.