Episode 12: The Gift of Pure Listening

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When we think about getting to know somebody, our minds often go to spending time with them, asking them questions about their life, about what they value, what they love. But the beloved Sufi poet, Rumi, offers us a surprising nugget of wisdom in this regard: you truly get to know another by what you are able to say in their presence. Check out the show and start to put this timeless wisdom into practice today.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.
0:07.0	I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. Thanks so much for listening today.
0:12.0	I would like to share with you a bit of a lengthy poem from the poet Rumi.
0:18.0	Rumi is a 13th century Sufi mystic. This is mystical Islam.
0:23.6	More and more people are familiar with the works of Rumi. If you're not, you're in for a treat today.
0:28.6	This is a poem. My teacher sent me this book of the collected works of Rumi.
0:39.6	When I had moved to China,
0:42.6	I remember in a really cold winter,
0:45.2	these poems warming my bones.
0:47.5	And I have one for you that I think you'll really like.
0:49.3	I'm going to read the story,
0:52.7	and since we have the luxury of being in podcast form,
0:53.9	I'm not going to read it twice,
0:55.0	like I do a short quotes.
0:56.7	I'll just let you listen to it.
0:59.9	And if there's anything you like, you can always go back to it.
1:02.5	On the tail end, I'll talk.
1:08.2	There's one piece in this poem that I really want to focus on today and then do a little bit of practice with.
1:13.6	This is titled The Night Air, translated by the great Coleman Barks,
1:17.6	Rumi.
1:19.6	He writes,
1:20.6	A man on his deathbed left instructions
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