Hi everyone is Kaysonger.

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app. Space Studio. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So you'll know if you've listened

to Radio Headspace before, if you've listened to the Head Space app over the years, I tend to talk a lot about something called the shared human condition.

And I think that can encompass so many different aspects of life.

Of course, it encompasses the difficulties

that we all go through in our life, both internally and externally.

But it also talks to something that perhaps exists beyond or underneath

however you like to think about it. And not just our thinking mind, but even sort of the lives that we live.

Perhaps it talks to something that sort of connects us all in some way.

This is something that's always sort of fascinated me.

I remember going into one of my first Buddhist monasteries that I lived in and for the first

I can't remember how many months it was we were only allowed into a certain part of the

library and in that library were just Buddhist books as you would expect in a Buddhist monastery

the philosophy the psychology the practice and everything else and then after a number of months of being there you were allowed into another part of the library and in another part of the library there were actually it was a really broad offering of books.

There were books there on Sufism and sort of Christian mysticism and all the different sort of

great religions and traditions and pathways in the world and even as someone who is

not particularly sort of religious in nature in terms of

following a doctrine as such I'm kind of fascinated by what connects all of those

things.

And actually as I started reading the teachings and many of those great sort of masters and philosophers that are taught over the years, you start to see a real connection

and as I went on and had a good fortune to meet many people

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