My World Tuesday: Beating a Retreat

Actually, there is no beating a retreat--not when Brian leads the way. I spent all of Saturday among friends in Plymouth, Connecticut, under the direction of Buddhist teacher Brian Vaugh. We shared in tea, walking, silent, and guided meditations, tai chi, and a video about the Soto Zen teacher Edward Brown. Along the way we even had a clay meditation, fashioning food items from modeling clay. We spent the day in silence, and it was good.

The cup, above, is one of Brian's that we use in the tea meditation. The dog and the cat are the live-in friends of our hosts and very much in sync with the universe. So they're way ahead of the rest of us.

The truth is you're already a cook.

Nobody teaches you anything,

but you can be touched, you can be awakened.

Put down the book and start asking,

"What have we here?"

(Edward Espe Brown)

My World Tuesday