My friends, we've got something different. It is some actual actionable content that you can participate in and hopefully enjoy and work with and directly derive a little benefit from if you go for it. The wise and wonderful and very sweet Thubton Children from last week's episode has offered up her guided meditations

to our listeners.

The first one, which by the way I've painstakingly

curated with the care of a

middle school crush mixtape it was really only challenging because

Thubton Children has years worth of great meditations to choose from on her website and I could only narrow it down to two.

So like I said, the first one is just a basic introduction to meditation.

It's only about seven minutes. But I think it establishes a nice vibe. And I'm going to place a short pause after that one because there is

sort of a call to just continue sitting on your own for a few extra minutes after

that and then the following meditation for a few extra minutes after that.

And then the following meditation

is a bit of a meteor mind dive

into some specific topics,

particularly self-forgiveness.

It's something that I think we all could use.

There's far too little of going around,

and it really provides some nice, pretty powerful perspective on making mistakes and owning

those mistakes and actually addressing them and ultimately moving

forward from them. So it's beautiful stuff. I think it's highly useful and relevant and

I think this goes without saying but another thing I love about this is

this practice doesn't require you to label yourself as a Buddhist or anything.

It's just a technique that you can try and deem for yourself whether or not it has merit or use but I have no doubt that you will otherwise it would not be

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