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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.

I think I may have shared with you before the reasons for why I went off to become a monk a very long time ago.

I'm not sure I ever really shared with you though the experience of showing up in that place.

What I was expecting to find in my mind and what I actually found in my mind.

Because I think it's not so different from how we experience our meditation sessions.

When I said off there, my mind was incredibly busy.

I felt very overwhelmed. I think most people we feel that sometimes even on a daily basis.

And going there in my mind there was an idea that I could maybe not sort of outrun my thoughts but if I went away to another place where I was sort of removing myself from what I perceived as the challenges of my life at that time.

I could maybe escape those thoughts somehow.

And again, I think sometimes when we think about our meditation, there's a feeling that we are removing ourselves from everyday life.

And almost escaping what's going on.

But my experience of going to the monastery was that for sure to begin with there was a sense of oh this is nice.

I've managed to sort of step away from and you know the minds all settled down just a little bit.

But then there was a realization the mind that I've been trying to run away from.

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