Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus. My name is Thomas McConkey. I am your host.

For those of you new to the show, here at Mindfulness Plus, we practice paying attention.

Paying attention takes practice.

And when we practice at paying attention, we can dramatically improve the quality of our life

and the lives of those around us.

That's the deal. That's what we're up to.

I'm coming out of a seven-day silent meditation retreat. I finished about five minutes ago or so.

Every year before Christmas, I do a silent solitary retreat for seven days. So it's a lot of sitting meditation, about eight hours a day.

Just simple walking and chopping vegetables and hopefully a little yoga when I can squeeze it in.

Maybe I'll talk more about how my retreat went next week on our and hopefully a little yoga when I can squeeze it in.

Maybe I'll talk more about how my retreat went next week on our next episode.

Speaking of which, this is the penultimate episode of Season 2, 2018.

Next week will be our last, and then we'll get going with season three thanks to your support in the spring of 2019 we're still raising funds we still love your support uh throw us a few bucks

give us a rating on iTunes that that helps us spread the love.

Okay, so I'm just warming up my vocal cords here, and my brain's a little mushy.

If you've done a lot of sitting meditation, you know that the brain kind of gets fuzzy

when you sit these long hours, especially when you do it in solitude.

So your patience, please.

I was going to bed one night, and I picked up the Gospel of Thomas.

I read a passage, and it has really stuck with me.

And I want to just say a few words about it and do a little practice in this episode.

This is Logian 42, Gospel of Thomas, Lynn Bauman translation.

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