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Hi it's Andy here and welcome to radio headspace and a Friday morning.
So given it's the end of the week I thought it might be nice to focus on the lighter side of looking after the mind, training the mind, finding a greater sense of fun and joy and maybe taking ourselves a little less seriously.
And as I was thinking about this I was reflecting on the journey of training in many different kind of monasteries and the different types of teachers that I met along the way had a good fortune to meet along the way and the impact of those different approaches because there are lots of different approaches to training the mind.
Some are very serious I think they can almost appear from the outsiders I mean I've heard them described as worthy and pious and almost ritualistic in nature and there are other ones that kind of seem to take a broader expanse and look each of us needs to find our own way.
I know when I said out I was looking for something quite strict I wanted that sense of discipline I wanted that sense of seriousness.
But that was more of a wanting to control the mind and I thought that if I could find that externally then that would naturally lead to internal control as well.
And again this works differently for everybody but what I found was that she was quite exhausting actually.
She's got a tiring sort of way of looking at things and she didn't bring about a lot of joy.
You know I bought about a lot of attention, bought about a lot of awareness and it bought about a sort of a conceptual understanding of things like loving kindness and joy but not really the feeling of it.
You know that was obviously more from my own inability to take those teachings and incorporate them into my practice rather than the style necessarily but I feel like it was a style in those monasteries and the teachers presenting that you know that was kind of the vibe that they gave off and I remember one day going to a completely different kind of monastery and the first
interaction I had with the teacher there really blew me away.
You know he sat there, he was laughing, he was making jokes and I can't almost didn't know what to make of it.
I mean he seemed to have all of the awareness, the wisdom, the compassion and everything else that any other teacher had met at hand but there seemed to be something more there.
There was a lightness, there was a playfulness and he even said to me as if he could see my sort of thoughts in some way he sort of said to me he's like look you know you spend all these years locked up in a monastery and you know the mind is like so rigid you have to find some movements and freedom with that and for me that was the beginning of a whole new journey of understanding
the meditation, mindfulness, training the mind, however you like to think about it.
It doesn't have to be a serious thing.
It's important, it's vitally important for our health and happiness and for the health and happiness of the people around us that we do look after the mind that we do train the mind but it doesn't have to be serious in the way that we think about it.
It doesn't have to be heavy.
It's possible to have a sense of playfulness, a sense of lightness, it's okay to make jokes, it's okay to have fun in life.
We don't have to stop doing those things just because we're training the mind in awareness and compassion.
So my hope is that in your daily practice, in your daily life you can find this sense of fun.
You never lose that. If anything you encourage it, you cultivate it and as you head into your weekend, I hope that your weekend is full of that kind of happiness, that kind of joy.
Thanks so much for listening today and all this week, I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday.
