Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm Thomas Mockocky. I will be your host. So, you people who've listened to this show before, you know that I love my Buddha

and I also love my Jesus. I was brought up in a Christian home.

I had a kind of what is now a more common experience of feeling like what on earth

is organized religion for. I'd kind of gotten fed up with it. And as luck would have it, there

was a Buddha Sanga in my neighborhood and I got practicing the Buddha Dharma, and that's

been a big part of my life for a long time. Fast forward about 15 years into my Buddhist practice,

and once I'd gotten to know the Buddha sufficiently, I realized, hey, I think you and Jesus

know each other, so I got really interested in Christianity again

after about a 20-year absence in that tradition. You've heard me in previous shows. It was a few

weeks ago, I think that I talked about Jizo Bodhisattva and his relationship to the Christ archetype.

I'm going to do that again today because I'm just loving it and I hope you love it too.

I think it's powerful and useful for our practice.

So I want to do a little comparative religion, spirituality, meditation here, and then we're going to kind of get into a little practice with it.

So where to start? Let me flip a coin. Start with the Jesus or start with the Buddha? Let's start with the Jesus.

So this is Luke, Book of Luke, New Testament.

Jesus has been crucified.

And if you're familiar with this tradition at all, you'll remember these words which I've had a different relationship to them over the years.

Jesus says something to the effect of forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.

Just stunning.

After Jesus has been crucified, brutalized, his first thought is they don't know what they're doing pardon me he probably

didn't say that right after he got crucified I think it was right before you see my

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