Adrift in Space and Time (1st of the Seven Secular Sermons)
Channel: Seven Secular Sermons
Date: 2013-11-14

This is a meditation - for the best experience, close your eyes and listen.

Now this is going to be fun!
It truly does feel great
to realize we all are one.
So we shall meditate.

This meditation's rhyming verse
describes a paradigm
of us inside this universe,
adrift in space and time.

It's nice that we can simply start
by recognizing how
a check of every bodypart
can help us be here now.

We feel our bellies and our heads
and just become aware
how arms and hands and feet and legs
are feeling everywhere.

Between and through them circulate
our blood-streams to refresh
the oxygen that activates
awareness in our flesh.

And as we slowly breathe we find
that doing so can draw
us into a more present mind
to feel the moment raw.

With every breath we take and leave,
we clear our inner eyes
and fully, lucidly perceive
each second passing by.

Our mindful meditative selves
grow out of living meat
and help our bodies stay in health
by finding what we need.

So let's do that now. Let's explore
and see what's to be found.
Outside our bodies, there is more.
Let's take a look around!

Unless we're blind we're free to see,
unless we're deaf, to hear
and realize we're utterly
surrounded by what's here.

This place surrounding us here now
where we consider this,
is just as present, anyhow,
as our breathing is.

Our breaths connect within the air,
within the atmosphere.
The envelope of sky we share
is also part of here.

We also share what rests beneath:
Our bodies' place of birth
from which came all who now here breathe
as children of the Earth.

Of course there's more than senses show
around us near and far.
The sky above, the Earth below;
there's more to where we are.

To North and South, to West and East,
the world goes on and on,
the planet every plant and beast
and we now breathe upon.

Of all the Earth, we barely know
the surface we begrime,
upon the spinning rock below,
adrift in space and time.

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