Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks so much for listening today.

Apologies for the episode last week. I didn't realize

until a couple days too late that the episode that was queued to launch at Wednesday morning

6 a.m. like they always do. I got snagged on a technicality in iTunes, so sorry that was late.

And then when we did put it up, the audio file from two weeks previous got mixed up with that one,

so it was just a snafu left and right.

At any rate, thanks for your patience.

A lot of you still got to the episode if you haven't,

the absolute and the relative, the relative and the absolute, however that goes. Check it out.

Also, I mentioned in last week's episode that we have an in-home retreat coming up,

which means it's an opportunity, September 12th, a little less than two weeks

from now, to spend a day practicing at home, really deepening your practice, really committing

most of an entire day from 6 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. I'll be guiding on Zoom periodically, giving you your own practice time and working

with questions and things that come up during the practice. It's a great opportunity to really

monasticize your life in the words of the great Shinzen-Yung, to really just feel the momentum of a deep

practice in every corner of your day. So we'll post another link to that. I hope to see many of you there.

Meantime, we got a show to record. So it's that time of month where I offer an extended meditation where we can go deeper.

Speaking of going a little bit deeper.

And before I start with the meditation, I want to just say a word about this topic.

I had been meditating many years before it really dawned on me like why do so many meditation teachers talk about

noticing when the mind wanders and gently bring it back it kind of reminds me of happy Gilmore

tap it in just tapy tapy tapy. Why are meditation teachers so obnoxious?

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