Episode 8: Eternity In An Hour
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What could it mean to see the “World in a Grain of Sand”, or to live “Eternity in an hour”? In this extended meditation, Thomas points out the “Ground of Being”, a classic territory in contemplative practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas |
| 0:16.7 | McConkey. Thanks so much for listening today. We're going to do an extended period of practice today. |
| 0:24.5 | It's a practice focusing on the ground of being. This is a concept. This is an experience, a territory |
| 0:35.7 | that comes up throughout the world's traditions. |
| 0:39.3 | And it's paradoxical in that the ground of being is both the very beginning and the very culmination of our journey. |
| 0:50.3 | So I'd invite you to just settle in to whatever you're doing or not doing. You can do |
| 0:56.5 | this meditation in stillness with eyes closed, in motion with eyes open, whatever works for you |
| 1:03.7 | today. The I'm . Take this moment to really just gather awareness in the immediacy of experience. |
| 2:20.3 | Just appreciate that you are alive, sensitive, naturally, effortlessly present in this moment. What a gift to just be awake and alive. I have an intention for the time being to just let thoughts be in the background of awareness. |
| 3:05.6 | You don't have to stop them, you don't have to interact with in the background of awareness. |
| 3:10.4 | You don't have to stop them. |
| 3:12.0 | You don't have to interact with them. |
| 3:16.2 | You can just let them be in the background. |
| 3:34.0 | In the foreground, you can just merge with the flow of sensory experience. Sensations in the body. |
| 3:38.0 | Feelings of an emotional nature in the body, |
| 3:41.6 | sights, sounds, taste, smells, |
| 3:49.6 | the fullness of this present moment, |
| 3:54.6 | just drinking it in, letting it open you up. I'm I'm I'm |
| 4:15.0 | I'm |
| 4:17.0 | I'm And you can start to taste the stillness in this moment at the very heart of experience. |
| 4:44.6 | Whether you're sitting still or in motion moving around in the world. |
| 4:50.3 | Just hold an intention to touch, to contact, join with the still point of the turning world. |
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