Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.

I'm Thomas Mconki and I will be your host.

I first want to say thank you to you for listening. This project,

this podcast, I've had an idea about for many years. I recorded the first episode last week,

and my heart swelled in a way that my heart had never swelled when I recorded a podcast. So I just feel a lot

of gratitude for those of you who are showing up and listening and interacting with me,

meaning I got some messages from you after last week's episode, and I was so grateful to receive

them. I just want to say thank you for letting me do this

for this opportunity. It really means a lot to me. One of my primary intentions for this podcast

is to support you in cultivating more direct and intimate experience with the divine.

And one of the primary tools for doing that is prayer, meditation, contemplation.

I talked about this quite a bit on last week's number one episode.

So if you didn't get to hear it, if you're coming to the podcast for the first time, welcome. I'd encourage you to go listen to episode number one. But you don't have to.

These are standalone episodes. I don't assume any prior knowledge in any given episode. I'm just

happier here. So in this episode, I want to help you think more expansively about prayer, not just think more

expansively, but to pray more expansively.

I said in last week's episode that I'm going to introduce concepts, ideas, new perspectives,

in each episode, but then immediately translate those into a new

way of being. So we're not just learning ideas, but we're becoming new beings as we engage in these

deep practices. So to start to think more expansively about prayer and to start to do it more expansively, I want to share a story with you.

I was at a Zen center, a Buddhist center, almost 30 years ago.

And I was sitting on the floor in the main room, a room full of people, a room full of people.

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