Yo Dawgs,
Back from retreat, and ready to re-enter the blogosphere. I spent the last couple of days catching up with close friends and family, as well as making plenty of time for quiet sitting. I’ve been overwhelmed a couple of times, but all in all, I’ve had a pretty healthy re-entry into the “normal world.”
How was the retreat you ask? Short answer: good. Longer answer: very good. At this point I’m going to leave it at that, of course you’re always welcome to e-mail me if you have more specific questions (which I may or may not answer). He He He. Just not sure what I want to say about the retreat experience, or what should be said.
In many ways, and most everyone who has some sort of contemplative practice knows this, it’s very hard to talk about experiences surrounding meditation practice. For one thing, it’s difficult linguistically to try and represent and then clearly communicate experience at all (not to mention super-mundane experiences). The other thing is that the more I practice, the less I feel it necessary to discuss some of the specifics. In a very real sense, there’s no one who owns these experiences or to whom they belong. So taking ownership for stuff that simply doesn’t belong to anyone, but is just a natural part of the phenomenal and noumenonal world ends up feeling kind of hallow. And finally, when someone does try and express something it’s often because they I am over-inflated with myself and it isn’t really about the person being communicated with at all.
There are of course many exceptions to this, and the fact is that there are several people I do share specific details with. But in almost every case, these people are doing the same or similar practices, and my sharing has a lot to do with encouraging and learning from them in some way. Unfortunately that may happen on this blog, but is much more likely to not happen given the wide range of readers and wide range of experiences. Again, if you want to speak directly to me, feel free to contact me. 
Hopefully what I’ve said about what I won’t say will suffice in saying something about that which can’t be spoken about. And please don’t ask me to repeat that, cause I’m not sure I can.
