Episode 18: The Source of Life

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

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

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What would it be like if, at will, we could “silence the mind and be aware at the core of our being.” Sufi Master, Kabir Helminski writes that from these depths we receive “help from the Source of Life.” As we learn to join ourselves with this Source—some would call it God—we find that it contains all the qualities of Spirit in potential, waiting to express through our unique vessel.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.
0:14.0	I'm your host Thomas Mconke. Thank you so much for listening today.
0:19.0	I have a passage I want to reflect on with you that will take us deep
0:24.0	and then we'll do a little practice together. That's the game plan. That is often the game plan.
0:30.5	If you've listened to this show before, you will have noticed a little reflection on a passage, some scripture, some sacred writing, and then just doing it,
0:40.9	just getting right into the territory. Before I do that, I want to name something. And again,
0:46.4	if you've listened to the show, you've probably noticed this, but I think it helps me,
0:50.8	it's helpful if I name it for you, if I make it more transparent. One Heart, One Mind is a
0:57.6	project I've wanted to do for many years. By project, I mean, it's a podcast that I produce with an
1:07.8	intention to really educate and invite more people into a different kind of
1:15.9	prayer life in the Christian tradition, namely a practice of contemplation, which in layman's
1:23.2	terms is meditation. It's Christian meditation. You will have noticed in past episodes that I will quote
1:32.0	from the Hindu canon, the Buddhist canon. I'm really interested in what the world's wisdom traditions
1:39.6	and contemplative traditions have to say about prayer, about meditation.
1:53.6	I'm sympathetic to people who are interested in Christian contemplation and tend to focus solely on Christian materials for such. Some people are even put off by the comparative religion, comparative contemplation approach.
2:06.1	I do it because it's just who I am and it's what I love to do.
2:11.7	I was raised Latter-day Saint, a tradition I love, a tradition I give my heart to,
2:16.7	but I was also co-raised by a Buddhist
2:20.2	Sanga. And, oh yeah, my first meditation teacher is a flaming Sufi, which is the branch of
2:28.9	mystical Islam. So I've just been influenced by contemplative traditions across the decades. I've been practicing
2:37.3	meditation almost 30 years and deeply influenced by a number of schools. So my intention here is to
2:45.2	be a witness of Christ to really invite you into your heart of hearts and the depths of your being.
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