It is a great responsibility we share

it is a great opportunity we share, as well...           

how are you going to play your role (?)

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Good morning. Nice to have the opportunity to speak and to be heard. I'm appreciative and respectful for our time we spend together. It is a great responsibility we share. We may or may not consider each of us is following our world. There is a world which we follow. It is our own. And inherent in this subject matter is an incredibly wide and diverse amount of characteristics one can find, investigate, and gradually through experience, learn more about. It is an amazing opportunity being alive. This increasing complexity we can contribute to creation, to what's happening everywhere, simultaneously in our universe, in this expanding expanse of energy began somewhere around fourteen billion years ago. It is from the simplest to the most esoteric, the most complex energy, the direction of the cosmos. Even today we're traveling today, one million miles an hour away from the Big Bang, expanding the size of our universe. Yesterday I mentioned the James Webb telescope, which in its orbit around the Earth is looking outward towards this cosmos we're talking about. In no direction does it find an end, but more galaxies, more solar systems, more worlds. Thinking about this for a moment, or two or three. It goes on in our sensibilities forever. How grand, how great creation is. Let's bring it back to home, to our planet Earth. Each of us lives within a bubble. Figuratively. Ebbing and flowing, changing all of the time. In this context, what we are pursuing, what we are talking about, what we are creating in our own minds is our communication to the world, to ourselves as well, because it is a reflection as much as a transmission of what's going on. The greater context of this is our societies, our cultures, our civilizations are all in a bubble of a similar sort. We are living upon a planet with a very thin veneer of atmosphere to grow a civilization of whatever type. Under the water, above the water, in different environments, to different levels of possibilities or of success, all in degrees, nuances, nonetheless. When we think of it in this naturalistic sense, there are obvious conclusions to come to. When we think of this thin veneer upon which we live in, this atmosphere that only extends for a few miles around a sphere with a greater than thirty-eight hundred mile radius or from the center of the earth to the What are the civilizations transmitting and receiving? What is it we are finding to be the message being portrayed? What is the message then of mankind? What is the message of Mother Nature? In our good fortune in this year 2026, we have some inkling of the past. We have recorded history. We have scientific innovation, the inventions, to help us understand even the more deeper, in a sense, recorded past. Fossils, the minerals, the activities of this very planet that we are living upon have been dissected. And civilization has come to a better understanding of just what has gone on in the past and what's occurring in this day and what might occur in the future. We have a better idea of this, a better grasp of these circumstances. To add depth. So we're not flailing looking for explanations, but have some basis of understanding of what's going on. There is a world which we follow. It is our own. Of as much as we wish, as much as we put our minds to. We can consider our universe, which is what we are doing here, mindful meditation. Why not? Why not be as open-minded and receptive as we can be? To learn, to distinguish the intricacy, the depth of being. When we look at civilization itself, when we dive down into the recesses and to the heights of what societies, cultures, and religions have accomplished over the millennium, and there's not so many, right? Five millennium, five thousand years, ten thousand years, twenty thousand years of some degree of recorded history, not very much, when you consider man has been an upright creature, a homo erectus, a homo sapiens, for only a few million years. But still, a few million compared to twenty thousand, is not much time. Comparing this to three billion years of life upon this planet from when the conditions became ripe for life to blossom. Three billion years now, compared to twenty thousand years, is a different story. It is a schmear. It is the thinnest of thin veneers of our being aware of our being here. Getting back to our civilizations, what do you think? Well, if you don't have this conversation, you think everything is fine, and more or less it is. But we can discern and we can come to a much greater depth of understanding when we utilize this greater perspective of what's going on. When we examine our cultures, societies, institutions, spiritual traditions, we begin to see a greater sense of detail. We're not caught up in individual facets of it, but in reviewing and being open-minded towards it all. We each come to our own conclusions based upon whom each of us is or are, the background we share, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so forth, as well as where we went to school, or not, how we interacted with our peers, how we've interacted during our lives, making our way through life. Everything has its own potential effect upon whom we are. But putting all of these things aside, we have looked upon the universe, we've looked upon our world, and we're looking upon the intricacies of our world. So we have a wide perspective to share, to have available to ourselves. And what do we see? We have still a great deal to learn. When we look, when we acknowledge things are not necessarily what they seem to be. What is good for one may not be good for another. What is respected in one society may not be respected in another. What one religion upholds another disparages. The same thing with our forms of government. What one feels is the main tenet of their philosophy, in another it is considered to be incorrect. Where does that put us as witnesses upon this great plane of seeking understanding? It can be a quandary, or we can be open-minded even a little bit more and just accept what it is that we find. And as individuals, and as individuals with voices and the possibilities of influencing and sharing, we can expand. This is what we're doing in mindful meditation. The music's gonna continue for another minute. Ponder about these things, please. There is a world in which we follow. It is our own. Who is right, who is wrong, who is neutral and in between? Who is a witness and who is so involved they can't even see straight, filled with misconceptions and untruths. Even things as simple as the foods we eat. For one they may be great and helpful, for another harmful and can lead to one's death. Taking nothing for granted is better than taking everything for granted, which is what our societies and our cultures and our institutions would have us do. Just accept what we're telling you. Just accept what you're told in school. It is our truth. Ah, our truth. But what is my truth? What is the truth all of us have a right to consider as our own, and which may be closer to the truth or further... than either, or any opinion one or another may share. Everything is changing. There is an incessant and constant flow and ebb of everything in this universe. It is the nature of the energy of creation. Everything is fluctuating and changing. This means there is always opportunity in the air.