Episode 24: Your Porous Nature
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It’s so easy to go through life believing that we are alone and separate. Listen to this podcast as Thomas relates some touching examples of just how connected we really are. Connection is not without its risks, of course–with true intimacy always comes vulnerability. But we find that vulnerability is a small price to pay for the experience of participating in the great flow of Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thank you so much for downloading us today. |
| 0:14.3 | So the topic I want to explore a little bit is your porous nature. What do I mean by that? Well, let me tell you a little story. I was teaching a |
| 0:28.1 | retreat a few weeks ago and a mother shared a really moving story with me. She said that she was tucking her daughter in to go to sleep |
| 0:40.2 | before the retreat, before she'd come up for the retreat. And, you know, they were just being playful |
| 0:46.2 | and talking back and forth before bedtime. And the mother asked her daughter, what are you thinking? |
| 0:53.3 | You know, and she just had this sense that her daughter was thinking something, and her |
| 0:57.0 | daughter described this really vivid image in her mind to her mother. |
| 1:02.0 | And the mother was absolutely shocked by the description because it perfectly matched the same image |
| 1:09.0 | that had just gone through her mind before she asked her daughter |
| 1:13.2 | what she was thinking. So it was one of those moments where this sense of separation totally |
| 1:21.5 | dissolves. We usually think that our thoughts are our thoughts. in this moment it was really clear to the |
| 1:29.6 | mother perhaps the daughter too that it wasn't her thought or her thought it was |
| 1:35.9 | just a thought that was thinking both of them at the same time so to speak and this |
| 1:43.9 | experience it really stuck with me at the retreat time, so to speak. And this experience |
| 1:44.5 | it really stuck with me at the retreat |
| 1:46.2 | because this retreat, |
| 1:48.3 | it started off really moody. |
| 1:51.4 | We had a big group of people at the retreat center |
| 1:53.6 | and the weather was dark and gloomy |
| 1:56.8 | and just the energy of the group |
| 1:58.7 | it felt a little bit sluggish, |
| 2:00.8 | a little bit weighed down, |
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