Reflections from my first 10-day meditation retreat

a list

On the 15th of September 2022 I embarked on a journey to the Arizona desert to sit in silence for ten days with forty other people. Below are a list of things I obtained from this experience. I’ve divided the takeaways into more “embodied” learnings and more “conceptual” learnings. We weren’t allowed to read or write on the retreat, so these are all things I wrote down after the fact. A picture from the retreat center courtesy of James Conway. First of all, if you’re thinking about doing a retreat, or are about to go on your own retreat soon, I don’t think you would get much value from…

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