three weeks of racket is enough to drown out consciousness itself, so the company suggests you take two weeks’ vacation at the most.
Observing silence once a week is new school and multiple times a day is old school
but avoiding more than three-week intervals seems to be the absolute baseline for my teaching.
So any spiritual retreat lasting less than three weeks is really just vacationing.
And in a way, one needs to know the silence before knowing what one isn't.
Thus it's the first day after the summer solstice and sunset tonight is comparatively silent—
but the young birds love this midsummer twilight!
No comments:
Post a Comment