Hello and welcome to another edition of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks so much for listening today.

I've been looking forward to coming down into my basement, my little nook under the stairs, and just reaching out to you all.

It feels good to be in communication with everybody and got a lot of love from the last episode, people looking out

for my brother Joseph, people looking out for those they love and care about on the autistic

spectrum. It is still World Autism Awareness Month. Thanks everybody. Thanks for listening

and thanks for practicing. It really creates a new world

when we do practice together. Today's episode is all about second chances. And the Dharma

is all about second chances.

By the Dharma, traditionally, this word means the teachings of the Buddha.

I mean it maybe even more universally in the sense of universal truths that guide our lives and invite us into more and more expansion and awakening.

The Dharma is all about second chances. What does that mean?

Well, in this very moment we have a chance, you could say.

We have sensory experience. And notice this. Notice how peculiar it is.

Whatever experience it is that you're having,

everything you're seeing,

everything you're hearing,

feeling, tasting, smelling,

thoughts and feelings.

All of the activity within you and without you, everything,

absolutely everything that you're aware of constitutes

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