Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thank you so much for listening.

Lovely to be back with you all.

I've got a nice one cooked up for you this week.

I want to talk about meta lineage.

What is meta lineage?

Let me break the word down.

Then I'm going to tell you a little story.

Then I'm going to bring it all together.

So meta, this prefix, the Greek, meaning to go beyond, in some cases to go through or transform,

something to that extent.

Lineage. In this case, I'm referring to any tradition lineage that informs you that shapes the way you feel and think and approach life, approach the world.

If you're familiar with Mindfulness Plus, and if you're

familiar with me, you'll know that two lineages that have deeply informed me are Buddhism and Christianity.

But when I talk about lineage, I'm certainly not limiting our purview to the so-called sacred traditions or the world's religions, we could talk

fruitfully about Western science as a tradition, as a lineage, that in fact deeply informs

all of our worldviews if we're alive today, whether we like it or not.

So when I talk lineage, I'm talking about sacred and secular, ancient and modern, any tradition

that deeply informs who you understand yourself to be and what this life means or doesn't mean.

Meta-Leneage is talking about what is the lineage beyond lineages, in other words, the lineage that we

might all have in common, apart from our unique lineages, some are Muslim, some are agnostic, some are Christian, some are

communist, etc., religious identities, political identities. Why met a lineage? Well, this has been

a meditation of mine for many years, and I wanted to just open it up on Mindfulness Plus today. And if you're

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