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29/11/2017 - Consider This Before Going on a Buddhist Retreat (Christine Skarda)

29/11/2017

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BY CHRISTINE SKARDA| JANUARY 12, 2017   

Christine Skarda has been on retreat for the past twenty-five years. She offers advice on preparing for a successful retreat.

Let go of the idea of a perfect retreat placeThere is no such place! After all, this is samsara, not nirvana.
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When we think about doing a retreat, we tend to recall famous practitioners and want our retreat to be like theirs: done in perfect isolation, with no distractions, no interruptions, and filled with spiritual accomplishments. Sounds good, but this ideal comes from a selective reading of their actual retreat circumstances. more...

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"Time is a way to say when something happens. That can only be said in relation to something else. In itself it has no meaning... I would say time belongs to those things of which we have learned that we can only make relational statements. So, I would say there is no absolute time. It’s only in relation to something else.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anton Zeilinger (Quantum Physicist)
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