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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning. A couple of days back,

I was in the car, driving to a meeting. Not too many external meetings happen these days,

but this one was, and I was driving along and I listened to 80s radio because I love listening

to music from that era. Anyway, I have one of those moments where one of your favorite

songs come on and you turn it up unreasonably loud. If you're wondering what it was, it was

new all-dose. It was bizarre love triangle and anyway it was playing. And the phone rang

and for some reason, normally when the phone rings and I answer it in the car, the music stops

for some reason, the phone answered but the music continued and all the person could hear

they couldn't hear my voice, they could just hear the music. And once I turned it down,

they were like, you have a little moment there and I was having a little moment and I was

already enjoying myself, I have to say. And I was thinking back to the power of music.

And I feel very often when think of meditation and training in mind, it's kind of like there's

a room for entertainment and joy and I think there's a lot of room for all of those things.

But within a monastic context, there is no music. I mean there's the music of the monastery

and the ritual and that kind of thing but there's certainly no listening to external music

and it's quite possible to go many years in fact without hearing any music. And I remember

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