Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I guess each of you who has attended the retreat would have his/her experience particular to yourself. We would like to collect such experience both for sharing and also as encouragement to other yogis/newcomers to vipassanā meditation. I believe such sharing is good as newcomers to mindfulness meditation in particular need to be encouraged/persuaded/cajoled. As fellow yogis & kalyāna mitta (noble/spiritual friends), we could encourage one another in our striving & pursuit along the Path by such sharing, among others.
It is also important to note the retreat was to serve as a beginning or inducement for further (& longer) retreats at least until we have the unshakeable faith in the 3 Jewels (Ti-Ratana). (The said unshakeable faith is attained when one becomes a sotāpanna or stream-enterer or stream-winner). Even before we have such unshakeable faith, we may also realize that such experience in insight meditation and/or mindfulness are so wonderful/precious that no amount of money could buy (such experience) or we would not exchange it for any amount of money (even if it were possible). It is also a beginning or continuing pursuit of the journey of self discovering. We would understand our own self better. We would know better our inclination, propensity, clinging, desire, fear and the like including those inner feelings, subtle fears or desires that have been long hiding in the deep recesses of our heart.
The skill that we learnt could and should be applied in every moment of our everyday life or as much as possible, such as while waiting, jogging, working etc. The Buddha has said something like mindfulness is necessary or required in everything we are doing, just as salt is to curry. Mindfulness would then becomes our best companion, wherever we may be and whatever we are doing.
So, do share your experience!
With mettā
chia
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