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Hi, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's the middle of the week, it's Wednesday

already. And yesterday we were talking about this idea of order and chaos and just how

these conversations might be going on in many different households and it reminded me

of another story in another monastery that I thought might be sort of timely given everything

that's going on right now. Now I don't know about you. If you are on your own, then maybe

this won't resonate quite so much. But if you're in a house or an apartment with lots of

other people struggling to find space for yourself, then this may well feel very relevant today.

In my earlier days as a monk, I was really passionate about meditation and I was always

looking for a physical space to go to where I could be on my own and practice. And I remember

showing up at one monastery and saying to the teacher there, I'd really like to go

into solitary retreat, be on my own for just for a year or so. And he looked at me in

any smile and then he chuckled a little bit and he said, well, maybe do some group retreat

first. And I said, no, no, I really much prefer to do solitary retreat. And he said, yeah,

but actually we learn more when we start with group retreat. He says a little bit like having

a rock tumbler or a washing machine. We put all the rough stones in there and all the

stones kind of bang against each other. And over time we sort of lose the sharp edges,

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