Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus. My name is Thomas McConkey. I'm your host. Thank you for listening. I'm coming back from southern Utah this weekend.

I had a harrowing experience, which involved me limping out of a long slot canyon on a possibly

broken foot. I will find out Friday, I hope.

I was going to talk about it for our episode today,

and then I thought, nah, physical pain, mindfulness, been there, done that.

We've talked about that before.

I got a little something else.

Maybe when I'm feeling less traumatized by my weekend, I'll come back to it in a future episode.

So today I want to talk about the concept, the teaching of simultaneity.

This is a subtle one, and it starts, like many of my episodes and lessons with a teaching. So I'll just get right into it.

It was really special for me actually.

I went down to Las Vegas a few weeks ago with my brother.

His close friend, maybe we could say his best friend, died by suicide seven years ago.

And I just remember I just moved back into the country when this happened.

And it was totally devastating the experience to my younger brother who lives with me.

We live together.

And a couple years after the funeral, my brother Joseph, he wanted to go down and visit the

gravesite and he went down with my family. My dad took him to the cemetery

and they couldn't find the gravesite. They looked everywhere. They just couldn't find it. And

that was that. Five years later, which was just a few weeks ago, we had other business in Vegas, and I asked Joseph if he wanted to come down, and he really

welcomed the opportunity to go back to the cemetery and see if he could, you know, pay respects

to his friend.

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