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slash promo. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio.

Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning.

As you practice meditation or mindfulness, I'm assuming that you do in some way, you may not, you may just tune into Radio Hes space.

He's David, assuming that you do some kind of practice like that.

I think there is a tendency to add another layer on top of that.

Perhaps the tendency to try and live a certain way. So at the most

basic level we're simply cultivating awareness and compassion. But I think that

comes with added stuff. Maybe we think we need to dress a certain way or we need to eat a certain way or we need to like certain types of things and not like other things.

And I think that can be really unhelpful actually I think you can really

start to shrink the world we live in and actually limit the world we live in.

The idea of awareness is not that we shut things out, it's more that we open up that we see things clearly.

And in seeing them more clearly, we start to understand what's helpful, what's unhelpful. I was reminded this by a teacher of mine, a teacher from quite a

while back who trained himself at that same monastery and he had just come out of a very long retreat he'd been in there for

about four years I think he had about a month or six weeks before going back in for

another four years which is a long stretch by anyone's standards. Anyway he was invited over to the Abbot's

cottage on the campus and on that particular weekend there were a number of

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