Hello you, And welcome to your practice for Day #7 -- our final day of this series.

For this morning's practice, we're going to keep things a bit spacious and simple.
When I consider the ingredients necessary for any living thing to bloom, the list is strikingly short.
A warm, and nurturing environment, perhaps from the sun and the soil.
A bit of tending and consistent nourishment.
Space to stretch open and safety from predators.
Followed by regular doses of the elements the bud needs to flourish. Water. Oxygen. Nitrogen. Encouragement.
Nature is rather simple that way.

Every acorn already has the intelligence to know how to become an oak tree.
It doesn't need to try, really.
It just needs some warmth and space. (and of course, consistent nutrients.)

Which is why we keep it simple today.
Followed by a dedication of our merit.

But first I want to say adieu with this excerpt of poetry from Galway Kinnel-- which I first encountered in the book LovingKindness by Sharon Salzberg.

It's plucked from a poem called Saint Francis and the Sow, and it brings the truth + beauty home. In the way that poetry often does.

"The bud
stands for all things
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing it's loveliness,
to put a hand on it's brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing."

And so it is.

Just grab a comfortable seat, and perhaps a pen + paper to capture your own insights after meditation, and click the video ABOVE.