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One Heart One Mind

Episode 11: The Mindful Review

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

5.0632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In a previous episode, Thomas said that “the Dharma is all about second chances.” In this episode, he goes into much greater detail. Namely, he asks how we can learn to bring a greater degree of mindfulness to the most difficult experiences of our lives.

For anybody serious about decreasing their own suffering and that of others, this practice is an invaluable tool!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas Mocke. Thanks so much for listening today. My back is doing much better. Thank you for asking.

0:24.1

Some of you might have tuned into an episode where I was in horrific pain. I was doing a meditation

0:30.5

retreat for my 40th birthday. And my back went out. I threw my back out sitting on my cushion.

0:38.3

I still don't know exactly what the universe is trying to communicate to me with that.

0:45.3

Maybe send me an email if you have any ideas.

0:48.3

I talked in an earlier episode of this season about the Dharma being all about second chances.

0:58.7

If we don't get it, or if we didn't get it last time, we can still get it this time.

1:04.9

In honor of that teaching and the generous, the abundant spirit of the universe that is willing to give us

1:12.2

second chances. I want to go into a practice. I picked this practice up from a teacher by the

1:19.7

name of John Yates, Dharma named Chuladasa. It has been really helpful for me. And I want to just

1:26.7

offer it to you in kind of a streamlined

1:29.8

mindfulness plus podcast version where you can just come back to it again and again.

1:36.6

Chulidasa calls it the Mindful Review and think of it as, you know, you take some time each day

1:43.8

to look at the game film, so to speak, and you

1:48.4

especially pay attention to the things that didn't go well. That's what we're doing here.

1:54.1

So let's do this practice. I'm really going to step you through this practice. It's going to

1:59.4

feel it's going to have a little bit different a tone

2:01.8

than other practices we've done on Mindfulness Plus,

2:05.8

but I promise you it's a really valuable one

2:09.4

that you'll want to keep in your repertoire.

2:44.2

Okay. I'm So just get comfy wherever you are.

2:49.0

You don't have to be in a formal meditation posture at all to do this practice,

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