One Heart One Mind
What gifts can contemplative spirituality offer to a world that is crying out for a greater Love and Freedom? Animated by a vision of interspiritual dialogue, meditation teacher Thomas McConkie searches Christianity and the world’s Wisdom traditions for gems and insights into awakening, transformation, and the soul’s journey Home. One Heart One Mind is both a podcast and sacred space where you can come to rest, deepen your connection with the Divine, and let your heart be as big as it actually is.
One Heart One Mind is a proud member of the Faith Matters Podcast Network. Learn more at faithmatters.org.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 196
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 22: The Relative and The Absolute (corrected)
Suzuki Roshi said it well to his students: “Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.” What delightful play! Let’s dive into this paradox together.
If we are on…
Episode 21: The Path
What we sometimes refer to as “the path”, that is, the process of transformation, has been expressed in different ways in the Wisdom traditions throughout history. We can learn a great deal from the …
Episode 20: Shiva / Shakti
In this practice, there are two currents always at play: that of Transcendence, that which moves beyond all form, and Immanence, that which embraces all form.
In Hinduism, these principles are deifie…
Episode 19: Schrödinger’s Glacier
It’s time for another extended guided meditation on Mindfulness+! Thomas shares a quote from the famous physicist, Erwin Schrödinger, and invites listeners to participate in the great Mystery that my…
Episode 18: What Pain Makes Possible
Mindfulness practices teaches us to relate to the discomforts of life in a dramatically new way. Conventionally, all we want to do as biological organisms is to get comfortable and stay comfortable. …
Episode 17: Heat Wave
We’re in the dog days of summer in Salt Lake City. Thomas shares a modern mindfulness parable on a broken air conditioner and working with discomfort. He guides listeners in becoming experts at diagn…
Episode 16: A Rare Chance
We live in a day and age where high quality teachings are available to anyone who is interested in the path of meditation. And yet, there remains something unique, even “rare” about the opportunity t…
Episode 15: The One Who Knows
In human life, we naturally confront the question again and again, “What do I do now? Where do I go next?” Or more broadly, “what do I do with my life?”
Thomas draws from the deep well of Zen in this…
Episode 14: No Body, No Mind
These last 12 days, Thomas has been staring a lot at his son and contemplating newborn consciousness. Which is lucky for you!
In this episode, Thomas leads an extended guided meditation, inviting you…
Episode 13: Cosmic Assistance
Do you have a sense of what it means to “listen from the ear of the Heart?” When we do listen from this new place within ourselves, the results can be dramatic.
Listen as Thomas recounts a recent enc…
Episode 12: Wisdom Mother
What would it mean to see things as they truly are? Is it even possible to do so? Thomas draws from an ancient Buddhist verse to explore this Mystery in this episode.
The Prajnaparamita Sutra describ…
Episode 11: The Mindful Review
In a previous episode, Thomas said that “the Dharma is all about second chances.” In this episode, he goes into much greater detail. Namely, he asks how we can learn to bring a greater degree of mind…
Episode 10: Duende
“Duende”, a term coined by the Spanish poet, Lorca, describes the power of art to whisk us away into a world of “invisibles.”
In this episode, Thomas mixes poetry and Dharma to invite you into a new …
Episode 9: Appropriateness
Appropriateness—an admittedly unsexy term, but with very sexy implications! Appropriateness has everything to do with showing up freshly in each moment of life and doing something we’ve never done be…
Episode 8: Eternity In An Hour
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 …
Episode 7: “Their Need Is Overwhelming”
The soul’s need is overwhelming. There are no lengths it would not go to to get the sustenance it needs to flourish.
In these days of quarantine, take a moment—take many moments—to come back to yours…
Episode 6: Gain and Loss
In these Covid times, we have all lost things that we didn’t plan to lose. Many of us probably spend more energy than we’d like fearing further loss. In this episode, acquaint yourself with the fear …
Episode 5: The Great Gesture
Life is full of second chances. The Dharma is all about second chances. Just now, if you didn’t meet the last moment with full presence and full awareness, life will offer you the next moment to get …
Episode 4: Neurodiverse
It’s World Autism Month! In honor of all of our neurodiverse loved ones, Thomas shares a story of a dharma teaching from his brother, Joseph, who is on the autistic spectrum.
Join us in this episode …
Episode 3: A Single Care
In these times of quarantine, it can be easy to get bogged down in one care, one concern, one worry after another. When we enter that “mind” of fretting, there is no end to our troubles.
How about ca…