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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radiohead Space.
And the Friday morning, we're at the end of the week.
I don't know what you've got planned for the weekend.
I'm going to be packing boxes.
I'm in a process of moving home and I don't know.
Some people don't like it.
I really like it. There's something about, I don't know.
Maybe it's giving things away, giving things up.
There's a sense of sort of clearing out and decluttering that happens when you move home.
Even moves that I've had in my life that have not necessarily been through choice, where I've sort of had to move.
But even in those situations, I quite enjoyed it.
There's one move in particular that I was reminded of.
My wife and I were going through some things the other day deciding sort of what to give away and everything else.
And I was reminded of the time when I actually sort of became a monk for the first time.
And the instructions for the monastery were to give everything away.
So as a monk or a number before you go there, you give all your belongings away.
At that stage, I'd been away traveling and stuff.
And so most of my stuff was at my parents house.
I went back to my parents house.
And I went through a process probably over a number of weeks, a month, just giving everything away.
It's a very strange experience, but also quite a liberating experience.
You know, I started with the wardrobe and I got my clothes out and I thought, okay, which friends would like these clothes?
And you know, they came round and they took them.
And Eve, I was just about to say I got rid of my takersets.
I realized that will sound, I mean, I sound really, really old saying that.
But you know, that was the reality.
Takersets and things that I had and you know, I gave all those away.
And I gave away all of my belongings.
The only thing that I kept behind sort of at the advice of my mom when my photos and she said, well, can you just give them to me as a present?
And then, you know, you have to give them away.
I'll stick them in the loft and they'll be there.
And I'm retrospectively, I'm really grateful that she did that.
But everything else was given away.
And living as a monk, there weren't really any personal belongings.
Especially in the early years when I was a monk, it was a very sort of strict framework for living in the monastery and you literally have no possessions other than the clothes you wear, the bowl that you eat out of, the razor that you use to shape your head.
And it's kind of pretty much it.
And on the surface, that may sound not particularly appealing.
And I get it. At the same time, when people ask me, what do I miss most about that life?
More often not, the thing that comes to mind actually is the simplicity of that life.
Sure, some of that simplicity is around day-to-day life and not sort of having to make lots of decisions about just the normal things that we do in life.
But a lot of it was actually about the simplicity of being in a space where there was nothing really to own.
There was no hope that you might have some things in the future or even any idea that those things might lead to happiness.
There was no fear of anything getting damaged or losing anything or anything like that.
There was just, there was a real sense of freedom.
And I remember a teacher of mine.
He showed me a picture. It was a picture that was a long-sider story.
And it was of a man in Japan who was just about to sit off to the monastery and who just become so sort of disillusioned with life one night, he'd piled up all of his stuff into a boat.
And he'd rode out into the middle of a lake and he literally just sort of threw all of his stuff out, out of the boat into the lake.
I'm not suggesting at an environmental level, that's a good idea.
I think it's called fly tipping and we definitely should never do that.
But it stuck in my mind. It was more like the spirit of it, the idea of the clutter, the baggage that we build up in life and that we carry around with us somehow perhaps overly attached to those physical belongings.
So it's a spirit that I've tried to carry with me in my life from that time.
And I'll certainly be carrying into the weekend as we start sort of packing boxes, taking some of them with us and leaving some behind.
But I don't know, maybe you take a moment over the weekend to consider other aspects of your life, elements of your life, places in your life that you could declutter, where you could find a greater sense of simplicity and ease.
And if you can, maybe I'm going to look at that.
Whatever you're up to, have a great weekend.
Thanks for listening today.
I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday.
