Retreats !

[herghly]

i recently did a 10 day vipassana retreat , now I can really see the value in retreats. Besides Vipassana what other types of retreats have you tried or heard about ? 

I want to research and plan my next retreats

[PsiloPutty]

Off topic here, but how did you enjoy your retreat? What did you do after you were dismissed in the evening? Just go straight to bed? Lay there and think? Was the retreat what you had expected?

[herghly]

@PsiloPutty the retreat was amazing. I got some pretty deep insight into myself. 

Going into the retreat I thought I'd learn a lot and get some pretty deep insights into life. But , I learned it's a process and I don't know shit. 

My daily meditation practice is much better than before the retreat , night and day difference . Before my retreat I had trouble sitting for longer than 30 mins. Since the retreat I do 1 hour every morning. 

After dismissed at night you just go to bed.

 

if you are on the fence about doing it just do it! I wish I did this years ago 

[PsiloPutty]

Thank you very much for your reply! I'm going to do one in a couple months, so I'm super curious.

[Ether]

@herghly @PsiloPutty How can you do meditation for 10 hours? The max I was been able to do was 1 hour and 5 minutes lol

[herghly]

@PsiloPutty the retreat was amazing. I got some pretty deep insight into myself. 

Going into the retreat I thought I'd learn a lot and get some pretty deep insights into life. But , I learned it's a process and I don't know shit. 

My daily meditation practice is much better than before the retreat , night and day difference . Before my retreat I had trouble sitting for longer than 30 mins. Since the retreat I do 1 hour every morning. 

After dismissed at night you just go to bed.

 

if you are on the fence about doing it just do it! I wish I did this years ago 

[PsiloPutty]

@herghly   Hell yes, I'm in. It'll be good for my soul. I appreciate your words.

 

@Ether Honestly, the most I've ever meditated in one sitting is 60 minutes. So how am I gonna do 10 hours of it a day? I don't know, but I do know that it's highly attractive to me for some reason, and that's enough to get me there.  

[Epiphany_Inspired]

@herghly as a single, low income mom... my retreats are a bit different... but perhaps, you'd like to try something like them:

I get a couple of days to myself sometimes, plus the equivalent of a work week once a year... I will get more time as my child gets older, and I am grateful to be with her now.... in retreat terms, this means I must condense things... I am good at this (twice, I did post secondary programs that were 3 years condensed into 1 year)...

I can't afford to "rent" anything, so I fold down the seats in my vehicle and make it into the comfy-est second home... I fill it with food, candles (camping supplies) and it becomes a mobile hotel that can go into very isolated forest locations where I spend most of my time outside in nature... (I'm in nature all the time anyway, but the point is to travel to "new nature" away from both humans, and my distractions).... some of my time is spent exploring beauty & connecting, some of my time is spent meditating, some visualizing, some concentrating and inquiring .... one night is a serious journey into the depths... I don't really like "vacations" like most of my friends take: going to a hot place and eating or buying crap/sunbathing/boozing/creating garbage, etc.... my retreats are quite the opposite, and they are priceless to me  

[Guest Quanty]

Best retreat is to have a countryside house or rent a cabane in the mountains, ALONE!

 

Namaste, Mfks!