Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks for downloading us today.

So if you're new to Mindfulness Plus, what we do here is practice paying attention.

You'd think that you would have gotten the hang of it by now, but I assure you, you haven't.

Well, I don't know. I don't know you. Maybe you have. If you have, then why are you listening right now?

Just kidding. I'm glad you're listening. So I want to talk about a bodhisattva today from the Buddhist

tradition and his surprising relationship to Jesus. That's where I'm going. But I need to give you a little backstory first.

So last night, this involves me sharing something very personal and a bit vulnerable.

So I hope you'll give me your full audience as I share this.

But just last night, I was talking with my wife.

I had an interaction with her where I said something

that, you know, in hindsight, was really insensitive and it triggered a lot of her

sensitivities around power dynamics in our marriage, but also just in general.

And some context around that is that my wife is first generation, a marriage, but also just in general. And some context around that is that my wife is first generation American.

She's Korean American and, you know, comes from a very different culture than I do.

And in a really beautiful way, she's tuned into power dynamics and a lot of assumptions that get made in this North American culture of how power gets brokered and bandied about.

At any rate, we got into a conversation which turned into a heated discussion, which turned into a conflict, which, you you know by one in the morning turned

into a pretty significant all-out brawl well you know conflict and as we were getting

into the depths of it like these power dynamics and intergenerational trauma and race and gender.

And as I was just listening to my wife speak about it,

it became really clear to me within moments that it was just too much complexity.

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