Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace, until Wednesday morning.

Couple of days back, I was in the car, I was driving to a meeting.

Not too many external meetings happen these days, but it's almost not driving along and

I listened to 80s radio because I love listening to music from the era.

In any way I had 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 Order, 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 hear the music.

And once I turned it down, they were like, you have a moment there and I was having a

little moment, 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 I think of meditation and training in mind, it's no room for entertainment

and joy.

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.

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