The list of the Five spiritual Faculties - Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom - is a helpful way to understand the unfolding of practice. Each of these are important issues of practice and each can be seen to build on the next for the full flowering of the awakened heart/mind.
Settling into mindfulness for the month long retreat. Approaching sounds, body sensations, and the breath as a home base, with ease, patience, and kindness of attitude.
Bringing all of ourselves to what we do. And using all the skills we have learned on the cushion into the world. Burgeoning the boundaries by fecund fabrication. This retreat takes place in home for the outcasts Anandwan (lit: Forest of Bliss/Joy), in Maharashtra, India.
