What has been your experience of Retreat from the World?
January 19, 2012 
5 Comments
I just got back from 10 days in isolation from my usual life. No phone, no internet, no news, no Facebook or Twitter.
Just ….
Next week I will share with you more about what I discovered.
But for now, I’d love to hear your experience of being in retreat from the world.
Share with me in the comments section below.
with love
your friend
Arjuna
Hi Arjuna
I can’t afford to do retreats away from home, so I live my life as a retreat. I work in a spa with that mindset, and live alone where I meditate daily and do a ritual with candles for “accepting what is” and “letting go”. Right now, I am opening up to a feeling of timelessness, and I felt a great relief, as if a burden has lifted from my shoulders. I’m SO excited because my vision for my life of service is right here NOW and I no longer worry about how it will happen, because without linear time, it already has!!!
Oh, I would love to come to the spa you work at. I is a real art to do what you say you do – in your everyday life. Many should learn from you! I will keep your words as a reminder! Thanks!
Hi Arjuna,
As for my retreat experience? In July 2007 my colleague recommended that I join a 10-day Vipassana retreat here in Canada outside of Toronto. At the time, I just read your Tr.Rev. and a few of Ken W’s books BUT never meditated in my life before. I joined the “silent” 10-day retreat, med-ed 7.5 hours a day, and nearly ran for cover on the third day!!!
By the sixth day I had “books flying out of my head” and when it was all over, I was “walking in mid-air.” Then I made a HUGE MISTAKE — I tried to tell this to everyone I knew, and they thought I lost it — and I guess they were right, I DID LOSE something. Haven’t retrieved it since. Lots of love and deep bow to your work. Charles Dudas
I did a Oneness Retreat with you and Chameli at Omega several years ago. It was not a silent retreat but much meditation time. I kept getting a very strong and persistent message-”you need to mend your broken heart”. I was not emotionally heart broken. But I knew I needed to pay attention. When I returned home, I decided to see if this was literal-went to a cardiologist. And a few weeks later I had open heart surgery-a birth defect I never knew I had-a broken valve that simply was not working. I could not have lived without its repair. So the retreat allowed me to hear a message that saved my life.
Good day. Just now reading my emails. I attend a guided silent retreat twice a year here in a lovely wooded area of Minnesota.
Thank you for all you do.