Episode 3: Burning Bush

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

When we go chasing after extraordinary experience, we block the flow of grace that is always available. Paradoxically, relaxing deeply into the present moment and not seeking anything special is the surest way to invite a special experience. Enjoy storytelling, poetry and eyes-open meditation in this dynamic episode.

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1:13.3	Today, I'm going to tell you a little story, as is my want, and we'll get into a little bit of practice after that. The story today
1:21.3	is the story of the burning bush. So I was at a retreat in southern Utah. It was about a year ago. And I was doing
1:33.1	one-on-one interviews with students, just talking to them about how the week was going. Seven-day
1:38.5	silent retreat can get pretty intense. And it helps to move things around and check in with students as they're getting deeper into
1:46.8	their practice. One of them came to me in one of our sessions and I asked him, you know,
1:53.7	what he would like to get out of this week of practice and he looked at me somewhat solemnly. he said i want to see a burning bush and i loved
2:06.8	this response it was amazing he wanted to encounter something sacred something holy something
2:14.4	miraculous and it was a funny moment because it just so happened that we were in
2:22.9	dixie national forest in southern utah and there was a raging forest fire i don't mean to say
2:30.6	that forest fires are funny there's nothing funny about playing with fire kids.
2:35.5	But what was funny is that here's a man telling me he's come out to the desert to do
2:42.5	intensive meditation practice and all that he wants to see is a burning bush.
2:48.2	I responded to him in the interview is 60,000 acres of burning bush not good enough for you.
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