Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott,
Out and about in Exeter in the early morning.
You can probably hear the birds singing above my head.
It's a glorious time of day.
There's a wonderful coolness in the air.
The sun is going to be quite warm today but just at the moment There's this feeling of expectation of a new day just starting.
And I'm following on from yesterday's conversation about the three principles.
I felt inspired to let you know how I came across the three principles,
Also known as the inside out understanding yesterday.
And I just thought,
Well,
Over the next few days,
Let me just take you on a little journey with the three principles.
It's the thing that's been the most transformative understanding I've come across.
So for me,
Reflecting on it,
Sharing it with you is something I want to continue.
The three principles were articulated by a man called Sidney Banks.
He had an enlightenment experience in the 1980s and he later went on to explain this enlightenment experience through the principles of mind,
Consciousness and thought.
Mind,
Consciousness and thought,
So those are the three principles.
The trouble with the three principles when I share them with people is that they are meaningless in their own right and an intellectual understanding of the three principles is completely hopeless.
This isn't what they're about.
They're about an experience of them in action in your life.
So I'm going to take them one in turn and today I'm going to look at mind and I'm going to share how I see the principle of mind.
Ultimately you've got to understand that there is one energy,
There is one formless energy from which all form arises.
And the way that I see the three principles is that they are three elements of this formless energy that have their own characteristics and yet are made of the same thing.
Mind is the intelligence.
I'm not talking about my little mind that yabbers on all the time.
I'm talking about the principle of mind,
Which to me seems to be an intelligence that is On the macro scale,
You can see the planets moving around the Sun and the solar systems in the galaxies and the galaxies in space.
There is a massive order and intelligence that is seemingly at work around the nature of how things work.
And then if I bring myself right back into my environment here and I can see the trees and hear the birds,
You know,
The intelligence behind life has the trees grow,
Has them somehow know to put roots into the soil,
Has them somehow know when to bloom,
When to create fruit.
It's the intelligence that enables birds.
Imagine those little fledglings in their nests growing ever fatter as they're fed by their parents.
At some point,
Those fledglings know it's time to fly.
How do they know that?
What is that?
That for me is this intelligence behind the whole of life taking form and displaying itself and showing itself through the universe,
Through animals,
Through plants,
Through us.
There is an intelligence at work.
The principle of mind in my life is,
If I just pause here now,
It's that which is hearing the birds singing and there's something in me that can distinguish the different sounds.
The intelligence of mind is that which has my heart pump and my lungs fill with air and the oxygen be extracted and taken into my bloodstream.
It's the intelligence that heals a wound.
There is this intelligence within my life.
And today I want you to reflect on that intelligence and how it takes form in you or in your life or around you.
What is there that is happening in your life that you can see,
You can witness,
Maybe in the nature around you,
Which seems to have an intelligence of its own right?
What do you see there?
And that will give you a glimpse about what we're talking about when it comes to mind,
The principle of mind with the three principles.
I'll continue this conversation tomorrow but in the meantime just let me know your reflections on the principle of mind.
It's always good to hear from you and don't forget I will be back again and we'll look at consciousness and thought tomorrow.
