Episode 18: What Pain Makes Possible
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mindfulness practices teaches us to relate to the discomforts of life in a dramatically new way. Conventionally, all we want to do as biological organisms is to get comfortable and stay comfortable. But when we look closely, we realize that pain is not just something we can learn to tolerate, it is a kind of grace, opening us up to a world beyond suffering.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks so much for listening today. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm aware that in this fourth season, |
| 0:24.4 | I haven't had any guests on the show. |
| 0:26.3 | And that's for a really practical reason. |
| 0:28.6 | I share a studio with others. |
| 0:32.2 | And it feels just like too much exposure |
| 0:35.9 | in our quarantine plan to record episodes there and have guests |
| 0:40.9 | either live or even, you know, when I zoom guests in from around the country, it requires me |
| 0:46.0 | to go into the studio. So it's more sanitary, more safe for me to record this season from home. |
| 0:54.3 | I hope you will forgive me. |
| 0:56.3 | I really miss having guests on. |
| 0:58.0 | We had a good lineup this year. |
| 1:00.0 | So we'll look to do that. |
| 1:02.4 | Hopefully season five. |
| 1:03.7 | Hopefully we have this thing brought to heal. |
| 1:07.8 | In the meantime, I've got a little something, something for you. So I hope you've come ready to |
| 1:14.4 | practice today. This practice is bottomless, beginningless, endless. There's just no end to the riches |
| 1:23.6 | it brings us. So I hope you can settle in to this episode with that attitude. |
| 1:29.4 | You're in for a treat. And you're in for a treat because you're a human being and you're alive. |
| 1:34.6 | And to practice mindfulness, to practice the Dharma, to realize the nature of the self is just an unspeakable wonder. |
| 1:46.7 | The more I give myself to it, the more I love it, the more I love and I love you for making |
| 1:53.0 | time to practice. |
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