Wonderment

What I love about this, there's so many things that I love about this tenet within Vedanta of wonderment and that it is a practice towards realization.

But one of the things that I love most is that it encourages an elimination of the ego.

Ego's two favorite phrases are I know and I want.

Oftentimes it's I know what I want.

I know and I want.

Wonderment, it is what the phrase I don't know looks like when it's walking around.

It's not a wanting of something different.

It is a mix between I don't know and appreciation, embodied, walking around.

On a hike in awe from the natural beauty around you, Looking up at the stars, a crystal clear night and these equal measures of not knowing what, what is going on in the cosmos, not knowing what is going on outside this roof that you might be able to hear through the microphone with maybe a fugitive on the loose or something.

but also an appreciation of the beautiful circumstance you might find yourself in.

Nearly anyone can get to that point when viewing something as awesome as a beautiful hike or a crystal clear sky where you can see Trillions of miles away, the light that's coming into your eyes, but Australia and wonderment is beautiful because it's something we can cultivate in our daily lives beyond the incredibly rare moments, the wonderment of, as Swami will talk about appealing a banana.

of the countless infinite things to come together, from light to water to nature's evolution to be able to grow this fruit that's a self-contained candy bar that you peel in front of you.

can cultivate it in our modern lives in nearly every direction.

The fact that I'm able to record this and hit publish and it can be listened to or watched anywhere around the world instantaneously for free.

You and I are having an interaction right now That would have been not just seemingly impossible, but unthinkable 500 years ago.

For many people, even 20 or 30 years ago.

Wonderment is, it can be mined all around us.

The world has so many beautiful aspects to it.

Even the things that our former selves might not have thought of as beautiful.

From the feeling you get from doing what you ought to do.

Feeling you get from a hard workout.

The progress...

Reflection, awareness that you grow from, that you can cultivate from suffering, from something the former you would have done anything they could have to avoid, whether that's a really hard workout, whether that's a diligent exercise.

pursuit of a professional milestone or whether that is a seemingly tragic situation unfolding in your life.

But seeing how, wow, there's a part of me that is okay even in the midst of this.