So I wanted to introduce the guided seedling meditation with just a little quick note to provide some context here because this one's a little weird.
Yeah,
The interest that I have is basically in kind of more essential qualities of truth.
Yeah?
Like what is the most essential basic truth?
And I had a recent experience that led me to be a little bit less interested in truth on the level of human understanding but just on the level of kind of metabolic truth.
Yeah?
Like the truth of living,
Of being.
And I felt that there was a limitation to the way that we can even comprehend this as humans because once we experience something that is essential,
That kind of essential subtle quality of being,
We then have this kind of maybe limitation or problem that then that experience then becomes articulated and re-experienced through language.
So on the one hand language is fantastic,
It's what we're connecting with right now but on the other hand it always kind of provides this secondary layer that will distance us from the essential qualities of being.
So I was interested,
Okay how can we get below that?
And I was thinking about animals but animals still have communication and language and social structure so even what would be a more kind of just simplified direct experience of being,
Essential being and development and this led me to a deep curiosity in plants and being with plants and being plant.
So I said okay well how about we try a little guided meditation that is kind of focusing in on and just cultivating a sense of that beautiful stage of development from a seed,
From a dry little seed that then becomes hydrated and has the right mix of elements,
The perfect mix of elements to sustain life and you just notice all of those coming together in this perfect constellation and you just get to experience that essential quality of vitality,
Transformation,
Growth and presence.
Unmediated,
Unfiltered through language,
Just experiential being,
This essential quality of growth and vitality.
So this I thought would be quite fun and I just sat down and did this myself one day and then at the end I said oh you know maybe we're on to something here with this and of course it relates to the work that I do in growing microgreens which are essentially little seedlings so I get to witness this stage of plant development everyday at work you know touching seeds,
Planting seeds onto soil and stewarding them along to the point of these seedlings which are kind of little manifestations of just pure life and potential but I don't really,
I mean I really don't,
There are moments but I don't tend to at work engage with this concept on such a subtle and direct level.
I'm grateful to be around it but I don't get so caught up in it.
So this is really just an exercise to say okay you know why not,
Just go ahead and go into it fully and see what you notice and so what I've put together is a 15 minute guided meditation from the stage of a seed through to the stage of a young seedling.
I hope you enjoy.
Give it a try,
Let me know what comes up for you.
Um yeah,
Enjoy.
