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Hi, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Thursday morning and today is World

Meditation Day. I don't know about you, I'm not too sure about these days. There seem to be days

for everything. I love the fact that they put world in front of it as well as though one nation

or one town might try and own it. It's not a bad thing though, I think it's good to bring

awareness to these things and look, as someone who has been an advocate and spent their last,

I don't know, probably spent their last 15 years or so, encouraging people to meditate. Obviously,

I'm happy to see it being celebrated around the world, but it does make me think as important as

meditation is and it is really important to take some time out each day. At the same time,

it's still a small amount of time and let's say we do 10 minutes or 15 minutes in the day, there's

still another 23 hours plus in the day that we need to sort of try and bring a degree of awareness,

compassion, however you like to think of it to the day. And I know the last couple of days,

I've given you stories from the monastery, but having spent quite a bit of time there is where my

mind naturally goes for these stories and so today I have yet another one from the monastery,

but that I hope will feel kind of relevant for you. And there was one particular monastery I went to,

I mean, as monastery's guy, it was, it was pretty hard line to be fair. I went there thinking that I

was going to spend all my time sitting in Lotus meditating and I guess in search of him in

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