Retreat daily life provides many rich opportunities to know oneself. If the ordinary retreat activities 'off the cushion' are practiced whole-heartedly there can be great transfer of skill when we return home.
Understanding emptiness, we learn to embody freedom in all the moments of our lives. The absolute and relative are interwoven--the ground of wisdom and compassion.
The body is one of the most constant resting places of the "self". Relationship to our body holds not only the potential for confusion and suffering but also for profound wisdom.
The place of passion in practice is expressed in the Iddhipadas (Bases of Power): zeal, effort, love of Dharma and preciousness of this opportunity to practice.
Opening to our experience, having a sense of possibility while being at peace with what is happening. Doing our practice and letting it happen, not making it happen, being witness with compassion and clarity.
