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Let's a studio.

A studio. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Head Space. So in the middle of the week, and a couple of days back I was on a panel.

Someone was facilitating a panel. Someone was facilitating a discussion, an interview, and they were asking me how I saw

mindfulness in the West, how it was different to where I was taught out in the east. I think that generally even separating

out west and east is a bit of a red herring because that's not really the experience. I think

there was the life in the monastery and then there was the life people were living in the rest of the country at the time and the same kind of goes for the West as well.

But I do see some very real differences in the way that mindfulness is maybe

understood in the West and I think in more recent years it's been applied to areas of attention and focus and productivity.

And it's not that it's not helpful for those things,

it's brilliant for all of those things.

But it kind of ignores a really important component which I think isn't talked about as much

and that's compassion. Traditionally if you look at mindfulness there's kind of two components to it.

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