not an oxymoron
Posted in Movement Monastery, Retreat on May 8th, 2008
I’ve been thinking about doing intensive work at Kripalu in comparison to doing it at the Summer Movement Monastery. Kripalu is such a cushy place, wonderfully supportive, with all the cooking and cleaning being done for us. The day-to-day living never brings people into conflict. It is by nature a much easier place to [...]
Posted in On Practices, Retreat on Feb 25th, 2008
I’m impulsive. (I’m not the only one.)
Can’t stay. Gotta go. Got to eat, to sleep, get away, get more, get noticed, be alone. It’s a speed world, and I often feel that my identity has shaken down into shorthand, a self-understanding so hastily scrawled it’s hard to decipher what my self originally meant. I’m a [...]
Posted in Movement Monastery, On Personal Practice, Retreat on Jan 16th, 2008
I’ve been feeling the spaciousness of retreat inside me since getting home. If I keep the practice going––not in an overwhelming way, but in a moderate, easy way––I keep panic at bay. That big wave of never enough time or money or recognition or whatever is bugging me at the moment doesn’t build up and [...]