so far so good

still plugging away at my windhorse retreat, and i’m much happier about the series of retreats again. one of the things i liked about the first five weekends was the experiential emphasis. no one was trying to feed me anything, i was just given meditation instruction sometimes with slight variation in the technique and told to have at it. my confidence in the practice was increased when the talks that came with the weekends would match my own experience while meditating. so i started to trust the teachings.

before the drala weekend, i had experiences of open perception and experiencing the world more directly and vividly without conceptualization. it was just part of my meditation practice. but the way my drala weekend was presented, i didn’t connect those teachings with what i was experiencing. i think that’s what they were supposed to do. but they just came from a different enough angle and that freaked me out. the program wasn’t experiential for me.

well, this weekend i feel back on track because my experiences of being in “the zone” from meditation really match what has been presented here. and the director’s comments on drala match my previous experience as well.

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