Yes, there are responsibilities

did you think you'd sneak through life without "accountability (?)

wrong, every moment a record is be-ing detailed in your mind...

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I see all good people now. It's nice to remember our family of mankind in a positive light. Regardless of individual mistakes, lack of civility, and downright nasty natures. It's occurring all over this world and possibly arising in each of us. Therefore, it's a question of one's ability to be a better helmsperson of themselves, to guide one's own system of beliefs and one's own activity, one's actions in more positive and well-being, meaningful ways. It is a responsibility we share as individuals, families, communities, nations, and a world. It is a responsibility in my belief system of being born. It is our payback to God or godliness or our universe or to creation or to whatever manifestation one looks towards for a sense of spirituality and tradition. Everything has its costs, everything has its benefits. We need be-ing aware of these things. It is not all love and kisses in this world when there are those who would deceive and steal or harm one. One need be open-minded, yes, and calm, okay, and clear, yes, better, and generous and kind, absolutely, and yet also able to be disciplined, purposeful, responsive, as one need be, in determining what is best to do in circumstances beyond our control, of which we can still play some part in. And yet the stewardship or sense of responsibility we each should feel is real. What does this have to do with mindful meditation? Everything. Because mindful meditation is not being in "la la" land, it is being authentic and real with what we have at hand. And there are many beautiful things, many concepts and ideas of splendor, and of the awe-inspiring nature of our creation, of evolution, of all the artistic and inventiveness we have created, and yet also there is a sense of disappointment and even shame for some of the things man does to man or man does to environment in the name of some sense of foolishness that needs to be monitored. And our world, our peoples, our environment need to be protected. These things go hand in hand. This is not one separated from another. You have two hands and they grasp each other to shake hands. It is not done in one. Communicate, collaborate, cooperate, commiserate, and compromise, utilizing skillful tools. There are always more perspectives for us to share. The wiser, the wider one's perspective, the better. Being here now, bundles of miracles. Homo sapiens have a great deal in common, being ninety-nine point six percent the same. We can, we should, we are, bundles of miracles as a race, as a species, related to every other human being. It is a small pool. It was a small grouping formed in Africa, many hundreds of thousands of years ago, and spread we have throughout all the land surfaces of our world, across oceans, mountains, and plains. All of these things mankind has accomplished, even traveling to the moon. This is a potential history of mankind, a possibility of what we can do. And I'm sure we can. And yet, how do we want to do this? In a sense of beauty and equanimity, of open mindedness, of understanding and compassion and empathy, or of greed, of foolishness, of meanness, of control, of enslavement, of abuse. Which way do we go? Each of us has a part to play in this game as a role player in the game of life. Each of us has a responsibility. Each of us has an influence on the whole, one's friends, one's family, one's community, one's society, one's nation, one's world. Each of us has a role to play. How much energy is one devoting to this aspect of one's life? Is a question to ask. An important question to ask during one's mindful meditation. Being here now, aware of one's breath, one's pulse, one's heat shimmering from one's body, warming the atmosphere in close proximity to one's skin. Being even more delicately or sensitively or receptively aware of one's body's motion, one's vibration, one's whole body quaking and swaying with activity, being aware, being aware of one's senses, one's sense of touch, one's sense of taste and smell, one's eyesight, the multi-dimension of colors, shading, textures, and sound, both beneath and above the threshold of actual noise in our minds, of the potential of what's occurring in this universe, in every cascading and succeeding moment in time. We are here now, bundles of miracles, humbled and thankful. The music continues for another minute. I wish each of us a great and wonderful day, filled with joy and smiles, opportunities of advancement and enrichment, wisdom, kindness, generosity, harmony, grace.