Episode 15: The One Who Knows
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In human life, we naturally confront the question again and again, “What do I do now? Where do I go next?” Or more broadly, “what do I do with my life?”
Thomas draws from the deep well of Zen in this episode to take on these often bewildering questions. From a Zen perspective, the solution is so simple, we tend to look right past it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks so much for listening today. All right, people, three weeks out from the new |
| 0:25.5 | arrival of Baby Phoenix, aka June, day 10 million of COVID, I've been reflecting on what would |
| 0:35.1 | be helpful, what would be supportive to share in this episode today. |
| 0:41.1 | And I remember to Kowen. |
| 0:45.2 | This is a riddle, an instrument that's used in the Zen tradition for bringing about |
| 0:53.4 | sudden insight, awakening, we could say. |
| 0:58.2 | And forewarning, I have absolutely no authority to instruct anyone on co-ons. |
| 1:04.0 | This is just my layperson's reflection on what I find to be a really impactful verse in the Zen tradition. |
| 1:14.6 | So before I get into the koan, I want to just give a little bit of a context. |
| 1:22.2 | Right now in the United States, we might say that there are multiple crises raging, the pandemic, |
| 1:34.0 | the total reckoning with our stained history in the United States of racism, |
| 1:45.0 | which has become institutionalized over the centuries. |
| 1:50.0 | The economic crisis. |
| 1:53.0 | We could throw in a crisis of meaning, |
| 1:58.0 | how to make sense of all of it, what to live for. |
| 2:02.8 | At any rate, you get the idea. |
| 2:05.8 | Crisis is all about us. |
| 2:08.2 | A question that comes up for me often these days, and of course it pertains deeply to practice, |
| 2:15.3 | what do we do about it? |
| 2:22.7 | What do we do? How do we be a part of the positive change we hope to see in the world? How do we be evolutionary agents which are |
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