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.
Using experiences as a child growing up in South Africa, as well as experiences in her daily life, Arinna shares how the practice of patience is an essential part of practice.
Renunciation of the activities and relationships in our daily life is one of the chief supports of meditative deepening on retreats. Because renunciation is the active practice of non-desire, it leads to greater peace and happiness.
