I have just returned from a 10 day meditation retreat where I basically lived like a Buddhist nun for 10 days, including a vow of silence, vegetarian meals, and seated, immobile meditation for 10 hours a day.
I find my emotions more subdued than is normal for me. Perhaps it is partly due to the cold I avoided acquiring for the entire time I was in the Vipassana retreat, but finally caught up to me the day after I returned home. Time will tell if my former energetic mind will return. Though I have to say, I think I could get used to this calmer mind.
Before writing this post, I scanned through the most recent ones. It has not been a good year (or two!) for ponderings. I feel I could just delete them
all and start over. (I initially wrote "start again", but that phrase now brings a bit of a raw feeling to my emotions after hearing it repeatedly during the retreat).
That's all that I find to say that is real for now.
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