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Hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And I just realized, hold your seconds, hold your seconds.
They've got the television on. Hopefully that'll stop it shining in my face. So, did I say don't listen ever, or what is it, if you can't close your eyes, blah, blah, blah.
Yes. I'm a little bit annoyed today, because I should be in a good mood. I have all the equipment I need.
I've got the camera, I've got the roadcaster, I've got the microphone, I've got all the equipment. I just can't, excuse my coughing, I won't cough after I've been doing it for, been talking for a few days. Just at the beginning, I tend to cough a little bit, and I can't edit it out of the video, so, but that's why I won't cough during.
It just, it's working, the stuff is working, and I've watched video upon video upon video of how to use the roadcaster, how to set up the phone, at the camera, the video camera, yet I'm actually recording this on the normal Focusrite iPad using software, so I'm not using any of that equipment. I'm using the microphone, which is good, but outside of that, I'm not using any of the other stuff, and, yeah, you know what I mean? I'm slowly been figuring out how to use the roadcaster pro, but the volume's too low, so, and I just need to figure out how to change it. Can you hear him? That's a good boy, Andre, just make as much noise as you can.
So, yeah, so basically, I'm just, the last two days, I've been trying to figure out how to work the roadcaster, and then to transfer it, and then edit it, and the idea, really, is that the thing is edited, it doesn't really need editing, because I can make it sound as good as I want it to sound live before I even start recording.
Which should, in theory, mean that there's no work hardly to be done in the editing process of the audio, however, shut up Andre, he's in a carrier bag, right, yesterday, right, and I've hurt my back doing it, I decided I'm going to clean the carpet, specifically, I mean, not the whole carpet, the entire flat, because that would just, I couldn't, it'd take forever, but the parts that needed it most, like near the front door, near the kitchen, and the areas where, you know, in the living room, where he just keeps missing where he's supposed to
be going, and it took hours, and hours, and hours, and my back, honestly, my back's now painful, and I had no, hardly any pain in my back for probably over a week, and then suddenly, ah, that really hurts, so it's all that bending over and stuff, yep, I think my rent boy days are over, and it's so, it's like I just can't, it's the bending over part, that's the thing, but I've had all the windows open to try and air out, because the carpet stinks a bit after it's been cleaned, which I don't understand, I'm
not just cleaning it with water, you know, I'm cleaning it with carpet cleaner, which is supposed to smell nice, you know, I mean, you know, I'm sure I was going to say something, you know, like pubs, restaurants have their carpets cleaned, and they don't, you know, smell all stale and sticky and smelly afterwards, so why do mine, why do mine, so pretty much all dried out now, apart from the one at the front door, and I can't let any air in there, there's no, unless I leave the front door open, I can't do that, firstly,
Andre can get out, secondly, other people can get in, neighbours might see it as an invitation, I mean, when I had my door, front door replaced, 2019 now, can you believe, November, and it was open for about two hours, maybe an hour, hour and a half, I had like three visitors in that time, like, what are you doing, go away, go away, oh, the door's open, yeah, come on, just, no, no, what do you want, I had someone, I had a neighbour just walk in, just walk in, like, really, since when did you just walk
into my flat, when has that been an activity that we shared, no, it's a new hobby, if there's a door open, I go in it, so yeah, I'm a little bit frustrated, it's, I guess it's a learning curve happening with this Roadcaster, and I've had enough of it, don't like it, don't want to look at it, the same as with a camera, you know, all I wanted, ideally, was for everything to just connect into the laptop, the camera, the Roadcaster, connected to the laptop, so I can make videos, and a podcast, all at the same
time, with as best quality as possible, and then, you know, edit the audio as needed, and then edit the videos, of course, I mean, the videos, the ones that probably need more editing, even though, you know, it could be, if I get the sound really good, the videos are the ones with the, you know, the introductions, and all that stuff, and I started videoing this recording, and then I realised that the background was just really messy, and I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no I'm not gonna do it, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, so, I decided not to do that, video, so I turned it, off, so I've got this whole new set up now.
I've got two tables, one in front of the other.
I've got the microphone set up in a new place, just perfect for where I need it to be. I've got the camera on its tripod but over there, you know, further away than, I'm not sure if it could even see me from that distance. I've got the Rodecaster a little further but once it's set up it doesn't need to be close to me.
But then again, I've also got my phone on a tripod, well it was filming me but it's not now. And I've got the iPad in front of me and I've got the Focusrite thing in front of me. So all this space is being taken up.
Seriously. And I'm only using one thing, well the microphone and the iPad and the Focusrite recording thing. That's what gives the microphone energy.
Energy. Connects it to the iPad. And after all this I start thinking, maybe I should have just left things as they were.
I just listen to other people, just like, just don't try and improve things, just leave things as they are. But I didn't want to, I wanted to try, well I'm going to. I'm gonna use this equipment, I mean blimey.
After all this getting into debt to buy it all, I'm gonna use it. Am I gonna use it? Oh yes. And so I'm gonna learn, I'm gonna learn how to use the Rodecaster by the end of the week.
So it's Sunday now, by the end of this week I will be, yeah I'll be in tune with using it. So I'm gonna be, I mean literally yes, excuse me, yesterday I didn't make a recording. Today it's now nine o'clock.
This is my first recording. Not sure if I even made one Friday. I might have made one Friday.
So the stats have gone down as well. Yay, brilliant. So if I don't produce recordings, I don't, you know.
Andre, really? I guess it doesn't really matter on this recording if he makes a little bit of noise. But my, my patience level has receded somewhat, just like my hairline. It's receding.
Patience. I don't understand what that word means anymore. So yeah, it's, I want to get into the frame of mind of gratitude for what I have created in a sense of, to have the equipment all here is brilliant.
Not being able to use it, not so good. But you know, if I could use it and not have the equipment, that'd be worse, wouldn't it? So at least I've got the equipment here. I've got the camera, I've got the microphones, I've got everything I need.
Tablet, laptop, you know, whatever. Everything is all here, ready to be learnt, how to use. And the weird thing about it is, I felt more pressured when I was learning how to use the iPad.
Didn't like the iPad, that's an understatement. I really didn't like the iPad at all. Didn't like the first one I got back in 2011 or 12, 2012.
Didn't like that iPad. Hardly used it. And then I got another one, this one last year.
Again, didn't like it. And I didn't use it for ages. And then I decided, well, I had to.
I got it while my other laptop was breaking. Because my other laptop kept breaking down and turning itself off. But I put it off.
I thought, no, I'll keep using a laptop because it's easier. I know how to use that. I don't like iPads.
I'd look at it and I think, no, don't like it. But I've learnt, well, I suppose I've been using it really, pretty much as a laptop for, I don't know how many months, probably eight months, probably now. Yeah, it's got, well, maybe longer, blimey.
It might have been the summer that I got it last year. So I've been using it as a laptop, been using it to go online. I've, you know, I now know how to transfer files and connecting it to the iPhone and all that stuff.
It's got, I've even got my own internet for it now. So I've got an internet, unlimited internet card just for the iPad. You could say I love my iPad, actually.
I really do like it. Because it, I don't like the RODECaster Pro. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna say it.
I don't like the camera either. Yep, that's it, I said it. Don't like them.
I love my iPad. I love my microphone. I do love my microphone, but I don't like the camera or the RODECaster Pro.
I'm sure I will. I'm sure that, you know, in six months time, a year's time whatever, I'll be like, oh, I love my RODECaster Pro and will be running off to Gretna Green in Scotland to get married, you know. Or the camera would be, I suppose a camera and a microphone can be the witnesses.
This is just getting silly. But, and the camera again. You know, using the, you know, the iPhone camera, it's a pretty good quality picture, really.
The sound ain't brilliant and I could change that by using the sound from the podcast, you know, that I'm using on it with the microphone and editing it, but I can't be bothered at this point. I will, but it's a lot of work and there's only so much. I've only got so much.
Yeah, you know, I will do it. I just, there's just a lot to it to do. I mean, even on the podcast, I've still got a lot of little bits that I have to do, I need to do.
As such, you know, putting in the information about the background music. You know, I have to do that for everyone that has background music. Sometimes I forget, or I don't forget, but I just let it run for maybe a few days and then suddenly I've got like three hours worth of work to do.
Or if I don't do the images there and then, I can't share them onto Facebook, which means it's a backlog, and then added them onto my website. Again, that takes time. And then uploading the recordings to my website, which is on, I do that on a different tablet.
Of course, that could all be done on a laptop, in some ways a lot easier, but I've kind of got used to my process. However strange that may sound, I've got used to the way I do things. And maybe, maybe I make things more complicated than they need to be.
There's a chance that's true. But yeah, I'm quite pleased how things are at the moment. Apart from the last couple of days, things have gone a bit shippity shoppity, a bit bleurgh, you know.
But this coming week, because Monday tomorrow, and I will get back to work, I will get back to making at least three recordings a day. You know, get back to doing what I've promised myself that I will do. Because if I don't make any recordings, I'll give you an example.
Yesterday, I got just under 5000 downloads, I didn't make one recording. 5000 is not enough. The day before that, again, I think I did one recording.
7,924, not enough. Anything less than 9000 is not acceptable to me a day. So the only way I can make it higher, I mean today so far, blimey, I've not even reached three and a half thousand.
But as it goes on, the more days I go without making anything new, there's that bigger, you know, there's I guess it's going to go lower down. I don't know how low, how low it can go. I do.
How low can it go? I mean, so far, this month, current month, how many days? Nine days. 36912. Okay, that'll be all right.
I can catch, I can get that back. This month so far, 64,610 downloads in the last nine days. So it's not very good.
So let's say 65,000 nearly, it's going to be over 65,000, I guess by the end of the day, but 65, let's say 70,000, you know, if it was a really slow day tomorrow, so 70,000 for 10 days, 70, 140, 21, 210, 210,000, which is really little, I mean, I need, I can't go below 250, 250,000 for the month, I can't go backwards, it needs to go forwards. And the only way I can do that is by making recordings. And that's what I'll do.
So apologies to anyone that's, you know, sort of depends, relies on my making new recordings. And I feel I'm pretty good. Normally, I'd say, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you say? I think I'm pretty good.
You know, I'm just have a look. A few messages here. I have.
Yeah, I think I'm pretty good. I make recordings. I go through periods.
And I got a couple of messages. Here's from Belinda. Hi, Jason, just watch your Facebook blog.
I think a good thought. I speak it. So here goes.
You have a beautiful. Okay. Oh, you have a beautiful soul.
You should be so proud of yourself. You bring a lot of people's a lot to people's lives. You really are a good and kind person.
Oh, by the way, I love the gray, very sexy. The gray beard. You know what? Belinda, Belinda, that's my stepmom's name.
Belinda. I think that I'm going to be one of those people that has a gray beard before they have gray hair. Now I shaved my head.
I don't have to. No, I don't have to, but it's it's receding in the front. There is a I've got a bald patch at the back.
But again, I kind of got the kind of hair that I can't it has to stay fairly short. Otherwise, I look like a scarecrow. But I think I'm going to have a possibly a really great beard long before my hair goes the same color all over.
Seriously, I'll be I won't be surprised if by 5550 now, by 55, I have a full gray beard. And my hair is still fairly dark. But with perhaps a bit more gray at the front and stuff.
And then maybe I'll be gray by 60. Maybe I will. I don't know.
Like my dad, he was gray. Now he's got white hair. Now I think white hair looks better than gray hair.
On him. It just not that I mean, doesn't matter. I mean, really, but I think it's like, okay, make your mind up hair, white, or black, gray, you know, just choose choose one.
And with him is chosen white. And he's got a beard now since lockdown, he's grew a beard. And it's pure white beard is like proper Father Christmas, Santa Claus, white beard, not as big as that, but pure white, and pure white hair.
And the beard really suits him. It just he just looks cuddly. I might sound a weird thing to say about your dad, but really, not fair.
He just he wakes up. He's been very cuddly to me lately to make cuddly. In the evenings, I pick him up.
And I just put him on my lap. And I just stroke his tummy and just stroke up and down his front and his back and sort of massage tops of his legs and he's got he's got a few joint problems with his back leg. So try and massage them.
Sometimes I stretched him out a little bit. And sometimes I swing him around, you know, just try and stretch the tendons. And if I stroke the top of his head or under his chin, he falls asleep, falls asleep.
But he's really relaxed. It's the relaxed kind of sleep where he doesn't like he's not jumping. Once they jump in he when he normally he's always kind of almost got a bit of tension in him where he's not jumping around like not not like a kangaroo or a rabbit.
But I don't know how to explain it. But almost just is a bit jumpy within himself. But when I'm massaging him, he just completely let's go.
And he massages his arms, under his armpits, his shoulders, is sometimes each individual finger, and the palms of his hand on the palms of his hands. That's almost hypnotic to him. Honestly, he could be he could be wide awake and I do that.
And he just is all like like he goes into a trance. He really likes it. He likes it so much.
It must be really feel nice when I do it. And yeah, he's been doing it more and more often. In fact, the other last night, a couple of nights in a row, he's actually walked up to the chair that I'm sitting in, or the seat I'm sitting in, and just plonks himself down just looks at me.
So I kind of lean over, pick him up. And I put him down on my on my lap. And I just do that.
And he's for about half an hour. He's happy. He's more cuddly with me at the moment.
But he can't get onto the settee himself. A year ago, he would have been able to. He's I'm wondering whether that injury he had with his leg last year.
Kind of really put it back a little bit. You know, when people have like break their hips and stuff when they're a little bit older, maybe even my age, and it can it can sometimes knock their confidence with like walking about and stuff. I think his confidence has gone a little bit in the sense of he doesn't attempt to sort of jump on jump over things or yeah, I think I might be wrong.
He might have pain there still I don't know. Doesn't stop him getting onto my bed though. He loves that big double bed just for him.
Doesn't like to share it with me. He stretches out completely stretches out like every single it almost like he's trying to touch the sides, which he's never going to be able to do. But he just loves it.
It's one of his favorite things. Sometimes I think he can't be bothered to do to make the journey into the into the bedroom to jump up. Plus I've taken out he hasn't got any toys in the bedroom anymore.
That's pretty much my gym in there. That's where my rope my bicycle is my exercise bike, the weights, all the stuff I don't use. That's where that stuff is.
Apart from the punch bag, which is still in the living room. My baby punch bag. I love my punch bag.
I was punching it earlier. Oh, feels lovely. Love punching it.
It's weird. And I absolutely love it. Especially as it doesn't punch back.
That's the main thing. Wouldn't like it if I hit my back. Oh, dear.
Okay, so what other messages have I got? Okay. Karen says, Hello. How you doing? Been in the hospital for a week.
Just seeing that you see you've been poorly too. Are you okay? I hope you're okay. Hi, Karen.
Wow. I hope you're okay as well. I've been in the hospital.
I've not been in hospital. I can't remember. I might just be moaning, moaning about myself and feeling sorry for myself.
I do like to do that. Sometimes. I'd had a chest infection.
Yeah, I had a chest infection for probably a week or two or they got to the point where I was really struggling to talk without coughing. Got a little bit of residue left, but pretty much is gone now. You should have seen the recordings I was doing.
I'm coughing now as I'm thinking about it. When I didn't pause, there'd be these massive spikes I had to keep going through to try and delete the coughing. But I gave up on a few podcasts because it was just pointless.
Pointless I tell you. But now things seem to be a little bit better. So let me have a look.
Facebook messages. Okay, here we go. I've got a couple of Facebook messages.
Here we go. Here we go. Hope.
Hope writes. Oh, okay. Hope.
It wasn't out of bounds. I just read something that you said. Something that you wrote is fine.
She said, I'm going to bed now. I'm just about to turn you on before I go to sleep. So I can go to sleep.
I'll turn you on, you know, the recording. Now trust me, I don't think I'm not offended really. I don't really get offended.
Not really. No, not really. Don't get offended.
I don't have. There's only one person really that sends me horrible messages. And that's Sebastian.
And at least really only trying to make me laugh as well. So when he does it, but generally I don't get. Yeah, I suppose I just don't do the kind of thing that people want to troll.
People just generally don't troll me. It's harder to troll someone who does a podcast than it is who does videos. Because on YouTube, everything's so anonymous, you know, although you have to be signed in to leave messages on YouTube.
You can't leave a comment unless you're signed in. But you can open an account. If you can't, can you open a YouTube? I don't know if you can open a YouTube or yeah, open a YouTube account without giving your telephone number.
I might be wrong. Facebook. You know, you kind of there are some people that don't, they block their photographs, you don't know what the hell they look like.
I mean, admittedly, I've got a picture of a ferret on mine. But there are pictures of me on in my photograph albums. And there's loads of videos of me as well.
So I'm not really hiding what I look, you know, who I am, in a sense. But there's people out there that are just like, Oh, well, I don't know who you are. And I see them posting stuff on forums, you know, sort of like bipolar places or those, you know, counseling websites, Facebook pages.
And they're anonymous, pretty much because just some people don't even use names anymore. And what about people that put pictures of their kids? There's loads of people probably listen to this to do that. You know, so I get sometimes I get someone add me and I think there's this young woman probably 25.
And I'm thinking, well, that makes a change. And then I look at the profile, and they're about 90. It's just their granddaughter on there or something like, which is fine.
I don't care. But just like, I'm gonna put a picture of I will find a picture of someone really young, I'll put it on my profile, maybe a picture of my little brother. He's really handsome.
So I don't fancy him. I just like him as a friend. But you know, he's, he's my little brother.
He's the hell was that? Blimey. It was this big, like creak in the wall. Wow.
Wow. I don't know what the hell that was. I really don't.
Don't know. Very strange. Anyway.
Oh, Dean love, Dean love. Hope says just finished your latest for you to sleep. I'm not asleep because you're too entertaining.
Oh, okay. And also because I felt this is funny, actually, because this is to do with something I talked about in a previous recording. I felt the need to share something that made me laugh a little about this one.
Basically, her husband, who was called Jason, used his middle name, which was Gordon. But when she got married, so she I don't know how long they were together before they got married. But when she married him, she had to say, I take you Jason, to be my lawful wedded husband.
And she says it made her feel like she was marrying someone else. So on different. That would be weird, wouldn't it? That's why I'd never call call someone by a different name to what I know them by.
It's just too strange. Although I do with a Buddhist right with the with the Buddhist sect with the they, people go, I know a couple of people that have now gone on retreat to, I think Spain, maybe to get ordained into the Triratna Buddhist order. So basically, what that entails is, um, no, I've got no idea really, but it's proven that they're going to refuge to the three jewels, which is Buddha, Dharma and the Sangha.
The Buddha is the Buddha, you know, the main man. The Dharma is the teachings of the Buddha. And the Sangha is the followers of the Buddha's teachings.
So we see other people that are going to refuge to the three jewels, the Buddha, Sangha, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. So it's called going for refuge, they call it when you go to so basically you your whole life is about those three things. Nothing else is really important, or as important as those things.
And then when they come back, they have a different name. Now, I've known quite a few people over the years, because I've been involved with the Buddhist Center since I think it was November 2002. So 19 years, pretty much.
I've not been actively involved for a few years, pretty much since I moved there. So time goes by. So I'm not being actively involved, but I used to be very actively involved.
In fact, in fact, I used to live in a Buddhist community with other Buddhists. And I asked for ordination. Didn't get it, but I asked for it.
And when you come back, you get when you they get ordained, you have your private ordination or private ceremony. Then you have your public ceremony. And a public ceremony is often done when you get home, or it's, you know, it's a public thing, or it might be done where other you all the other monks or other not monks, the other Buddhists are there, whatever.
So it's a public one, a private one. And not a necklace, not a handkerchief. It's kind of a thing that goes over your neck.
And it's white. And it has the three jewels on there. But it's called a kesa.
Anyway, I'm trying to think of something that's like it. I can't actually, a neckerchief or something. And so yeah, they get that.
And then maybe they get given a name, an ordination name. So they might go out with the name, I don't know, Horace, for example, and come back. Buddha, Buddha sanghanara, or something, you know, that might be their name.
Buddha sanghanara. There may be a Buddha sanghanara. I don't know.
Good name. And, you know, you might have known that person for 10 years, which I have, Maggie, my friend is going, or she's just left last Thursday or something. And she, you know, I've known her for more than 10 years, actually, since too late 2007.
I haven't seen her for quite a while, though. But I still, you know, kind of know what's going on roughly, roughly. And yeah, she's gone off to get ordained.
So she'll come back with a different name, completely different name. And I've known so many people that have gone off, and come back with a different name. Let me tell you about them.
I had a friend, when I used to work in a Buddhist shop, the evolution shop. I worked in two of them, actually. Two.
And so the first one, I worked in, I started in December 2003. And then I, yeah, December 2003. I was there till August 2004.
And then I worked part time at another shop when I moved to do my university course in 2007, late 2007. So I was working there during 2008, 2009, on and off during that period. So the first, the first time I worked in the shop, the first shop I worked in, they're all closed now, by the way, they're all, whole thing closed quite a while ago.
Which was sad. The Yeah, it meant something to me, those places. But I, so I used to go in and during my lunch breaks, or, you know, used to be nice places to pop in and say hello, or take take some ice creams in for the staff or just, you know, do a bit of volunteering and stuff, whatever.
If I fancy that, you know, but you know, you know, you know, you know, you Jeff, not Jeff. Not Michael. Not Brian.
He had an Irish name. No, he didn't. He had an Irish spelling of a name.
Not Sean. Michael. Wow.
Mark, Mark, Mark or Michael. I think Michael. Mitch.
Maureen. No. What was his name? Anyway, he, I knew him for, I knew him for a few years before he got ordained.
And then I, everybody I worked with, when I first started working there, all got ordained since. So there was Nick, there was John, there was Will, they all got ordained. And the weird, well not weird, but the thing about it, you know, I was talking about the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.
All three of them had one of those words, one of those names in their name. Now, you might think, well, that probably happens a lot. Not that often, you would believe this is Sanskrit.
And I think is where, is it Pali? I think it's Sanskrit where they actually get the words. And usually the words, something like meaning, it's a word to describe what they, the person that's not adopting you, that is giving you the case, you know, giving you your name during the ordination. It's a word that describes your character, or how, where you're kind of aiming for in life.
So it was just amazing that one of them had Buddha in his name, one had Sangha, and one had Dharma. So it's, I just found that amazing because I remember when they all asked for ordination. It wasn't all at the same time.
It was around the same time. And I worked with all three of them, you know, and I didn't get on with all of them all the time. There's one I got on with most of the time, pretty much all the time, but I got on with them.
But there was, you know, it was one of those situations where you'd get pulled up. If you said something that was perhaps out of order, or you get challenged by your behavior, or by what you said. Because it was a Buddhist environment, and it was, everyone was trying to act, you know, or at least behave in a certain way.
And I turned up and wasn't always fitting in with what they perceived to be the correct way of behaving. I'm being very vague here. I had a couple of run-ins, but ultimately, I did like them all, all of them.
Michael, not Michael. Michael, maybe Michael. That's really going to bug me.
I can't think of his name. Barnaby? Ah, now I just remembered, he's got the same name as someone else I know, who also got ordained. Martin, but it was spelt with Martain, M-A-R-T-A-I-N.
So it was spelt, I think, the Irish way, or Scottish way. Irish, Celtic anyway. And it was spelt wrongly, that's what I'm saying.
And, ooh, he, yeah, he got ordained. I was living in the community by then, when he had his ordination. And the others got ordained after that as well.
And since then, I've known loads of people that got ordained that I knew before. Let me count them. How many people I've known, like became friends with, that got ordained.
There's people that I didn't know that well that got ordained as well, but just the ones that I'm friends with. So, one, two, three, four. That's it.
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know that well, I suppose classed as friends, but not like, you know, we wouldn't want to touch each other, you know, we wouldn't want to hold hands, and I mean like shake hands, not hold, shake hands, I'll just bash the microphone, that was not a euphemism.
So, yeah, it's, I don't know why they've not opened the doors yet, because I'm pretty, pretty sure the places that offer worship, places of worship can open, but they're still doing their stuff through Zoom, and I don't understand, because I don't want anything to do with Zoom, or being part of something like that, I don't know why they've not opened the doors yet, because I'm pretty, pretty sure the places that offer worship, places of worship can open, but they're still doing their stuff through Zoom, and I don't understand, because I don't want anything to do
with Zoom, or being part of something like that, I don't know why they've not opened the doors yet, because I'm pretty, pretty sure the places that offer worship, places of worship can open, but they're still doing their stuff through Zoom, and I don't understand, because I don't want anything to do with Zoom, or being part of something like that, I don't know why they've not opened the doors yet, so that doesn't work for me, not from a Buddhist perspective.
I can see how good it is for people that can't get to the center due to, you know, for whatever reason. It's great to have that as an option.
So maybe keep it in, you know, film, film what happens, maybe film the meditation, for example, or stick a little camera in there and film it, while it's happening, and show it live, stream it. But instead of, when there was a time when all my friends pretty much, 95% of my friends were Buddhists. Now, I feel like none of my friends are Buddhists, and I've not got really, I've not really increased my number of friends by much, outside the Buddhist world.
So that's one of those, I think, an issue that can come from having, you know, the old, having all your friends in one place, connected to a religion or an organization like that. It can be brilliant. And, you know, the benefits can be great, to have almost like you've got instant friends if you tow the line, and you know, you act accordingly and stuff, and you can make really good friends, which I did.
But then when you stop going, or if you choose to stop going for whatever reason, it's almost like the friendship's connected only if you go along, or if you're involved. If you're not involved, that's where the going to refuge to the Three Jewels comes in, because that third one, Sangha, if you're not in the Sangha, then you're no longer really important to the people, to the Buddhists, because you're not part of the Sangha if you don't go, if you're not involved. And their priority is those that go along who are involved, which I suppose if you know that at the beginning, I think it's cool, but fair enough, that kind of makes a lot of sense, really, in some ways.
But I, you know, will you shut up sneezing, you stupid, you ferret, I've got very limited patience today, very limited. There is another reason, but I won't tell you what it is, because something wound me up earlier. But I'm not going to mention it, because I'm trying to stay positive.
Shut up sneezing. It's not even a real sneeze. I wish I had a soundproofing.
Well, that was that message from what's-the-name. I won't read the next one. Kerry, oh, Kerry says, hi, Jason, back listening to you.
Had a bit of a break from it. Needed a break. Hope you and Andrea are well.
Thank you. Yeah, it's all groovy. You know what I mean? Just same, it's all the same.
Same old, same old, same old, same old. This is Karen, says, nice to hear from you. Hope you don't mind me writing to you.
I suffer from chronic pain, so I just found one on your website. I've only learned about podcasts recently, so I'm still a bit, shut up with your sneezing. You know what he does? He goes somewhere, right? Like he gets inside a jacket, or he got so many, a lot of my old clothes, I just leave, and he likes to sleep in them and stuff.
And he goes somewhere. It's almost like he's purposely gone in there. Caused himself to sneeze, but he doesn't move.
He just stays there. So maybe the cloak, maybe the dusting, maybe whatever, all the material's sticking out, a bit frayed, and it's tickling his nose. So he's sneezing, but he doesn't move.
He just still stays there. He doesn't move. He just, he's still there, sneezing.
Which is, it's a bit annoying generally, but I don't, if he hides behind the settee, I can't move him. I can't get to him. He's found a place underneath the settee, a pocket, a cup, I don't know where it is, but he literally, it's within the settee, and he hides in there, and he sleeps in there.
I can't get him out. The only way I'd be able to get him out is if I turned the settee upside down. And trust me, it's too heavy to do that.
It's a really, really heavy sofa. It's a recliner, double recliner that my friend gave me, and it's heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy. So I can pull it out, but I can't get it all the way out in order to expose him.
So I don't know, I still don't know where it is he goes. So I can't make podcasts when he's in there. Well, I can, I do, but then he starts sneezing, and I'm like, argh, I'm just moaning.
I'm being a moany, woany. Anyway, that's it for me. I think that is it for me.
Thank you very much. Please, please, please, please remember. Remember to be kind to yourself.
You deserve to be happy. Do something nice. Do something nice for yourself in the coming week.
It doesn't have to cost money. You know, you can always steal stuff. No, I'm joking.
It doesn't have to cost money. Just be nice to yourself. It's very important.
Relax and just enjoy the week. Plan for the week to be relaxing. Plan to be able to remember that you are able to relax easily and naturally.
I'm boring myself to sleep. Blimey, I remember to fall asleep and relax and remember to be kind to yourself. I just got a runny nose in my head.
All right, take care. Lots of love. Bye.
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