1 00:00:04,081 --> 00:00:07,566 What part does music play in lay life and monastic life? 2 00:00:07,946 --> 00:00:10,730 Is any sort of music forbidden or encouraged? 3 00:00:11,832 --> 00:00:16,077 It doesn't play any part and I'd say it's not encouraged. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:18,481 It's indulged in. 5 00:00:18,541 --> 00:00:20,363 That's all. 6 00:00:21,325 --> 00:00:22,626 Music is not beneficial. 7 00:00:23,808 --> 00:00:27,473 Music is something that 8 00:00:27,453 --> 00:00:32,122 excites one's desire and one's attachment. 9 00:00:32,623 --> 00:00:32,924 Sorry. 10 00:00:34,247 --> 00:00:34,968 I was a musician. 11 00:00:34,988 --> 00:00:35,850 I was in a band. 12 00:00:36,130 --> 00:00:36,952 I played the piano. 13 00:00:36,972 --> 00:00:38,154 I played classical guitar. 14 00:00:39,557 --> 00:00:45,529 I had a Les Paul 76 Deluxe 15 00:00:45,509 --> 00:00:48,613 I was in a band. 16 00:00:48,693 --> 00:00:49,413 I had long hair. 17 00:00:49,454 --> 00:00:52,357 And then I was a punk rocker. 18 00:00:54,239 --> 00:00:56,782 Heavily into music, more than most people. 19 00:00:56,802 --> 00:01:07,634 I was in... What do you call those people who are... I don't know the word. 20 00:01:08,575 --> 00:01:09,617 Words always escape me. 21 00:01:10,117 --> 00:01:11,719 I was in... 22 00:01:13,758 --> 00:01:15,763 The tip of my tongue starts with an E, I think. 23 00:01:16,665 --> 00:01:21,717 These people who are, who really know their stuff. 24 00:01:21,777 --> 00:01:22,559 A snob, kind of. 25 00:01:28,513 --> 00:01:29,495 Kind of a music snob. 26 00:01:30,618 --> 00:01:32,121 You know, in the know and all that. 27 00:01:33,029 --> 00:01:34,973 And I gave it up. 28 00:01:34,993 --> 00:01:36,015 I don't listen to music at all. 29 00:01:37,838 --> 00:01:40,984 I'm certainly not less happy for it. 30 00:01:41,165 --> 00:01:42,086 I was miserable. 31 00:01:43,108 --> 00:01:43,790 I was horrible. 32 00:01:44,150 --> 00:01:46,515 I was really... 33 00:01:48,368 --> 00:01:53,135 Yeah, if anyone ever says I don't look happy enough, you should have seen me before. 34 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:54,778 I was really depressed. 35 00:01:55,739 --> 00:02:01,388 And that's when I was in the thick of it, of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. 36 00:02:01,408 --> 00:02:02,530 I had everything. 37 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:04,673 I had everything that was supposed to make you happy. 38 00:02:04,713 --> 00:02:07,237 I was miserable. 39 00:02:07,918 --> 00:02:11,203 It was probably because I was miserable that I was so inclined towards it. 40 00:02:13,546 --> 00:02:24,433 Spent some time recently writing down Because I'm off I often have to think back what year was this so I spent some time writing down What happened every year of my life? 41 00:02:25,122 --> 00:02:26,424 that I can remember. 42 00:02:26,484 --> 00:02:32,495 And it was interesting in the teenage years how it was just so dark, so hard to remember. 43 00:02:32,535 --> 00:02:37,805 Of course, childhood, early childhood was even worse, but in a different way. 44 00:02:38,586 --> 00:02:45,038 Because teenage years, they're getting further away now, but they're not that far. 45 00:02:45,018 --> 00:02:47,542 But it's funny how dark they are. 46 00:02:49,224 --> 00:02:50,727 That's how I remember them, actually. 47 00:02:51,568 --> 00:02:53,791 That's how I remarked upon them, how dark it was. 48 00:02:55,153 --> 00:02:59,920 What a hole my teenage existence was. 49 00:03:00,060 --> 00:03:04,427 That's why I think we go for drugs and sex and rock and roll. 50 00:03:04,407 --> 00:03:13,658 Not because we're happy or, you know, because we're the kind of people who find happiness because we're miserable. 51 00:03:14,359 --> 00:03:15,460 So we're like drug addicts. 52 00:03:18,104 --> 00:03:20,887 Yep. 53 00:03:20,907 --> 00:03:22,829 Sorry, I mean, such a bummer, no? 54 00:03:24,912 --> 00:03:27,495 We monks, party poopers.