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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Friday morning. So given the

end of the week, I thought we might be nice to focus on the lighter side of looking after the

mind, training the mind, finding a greater sense of fun and joy and maybe taking ourselves

a little less seriously. And as I was thinking about this, I was reflecting on the journey of

training in many different kind of monasteries and the different types of teachers that I met

along the way, had a good fortune to meet along the way and the impact of those different approaches.

Because there are lots of different approaches to training the mind. Some are very serious. I think

they can almost appear from the outsiders. I mean, I've heard them described as worthy and pious

and almost ritualistic in nature. And there are other ones that kind of seem to take a broader

expanse and look, each of us needs to find our own way. I know when I said out, I was looking for

something quite strict. I wanted that sense of discipline. I wanted that sense of seriousness.

But that was more of a wanting to control the mind. And I thought that if I could find that

externally, then that would naturally lead to internal control as well. And again, this works

differently for everybody. But what I found was that she was quite exhausting actually.

She's got a tiring sort of way of looking at things and she didn't bring about a lot of joy.

You know, I bought about a lot of attention, bought about a lot of awareness, and it bought about a

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