Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness

Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness

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Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness
Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness
Day 1: Working Meditation, Paradox, and Permission

Day 1: Working Meditation, Paradox, and Permission

Part 4 of 4 (Striving)

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Jun 26, 2025
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These next two sections close out Day 1 of the retreat. They begin in the kitchen, where the rhythm of dishwashing unexpectedly stirs an old wound. And then ends in the meditation hall, where a Dharma talk gently reframes letting go.

Sometimes, insight doesn’t arrive as clarity. Sometimes it comes as permission.


Day 1: Wanting to be Wanted

(Striving)


Working Meditation

A short time after lunch, I joined the second shift for dishes in the back kitchen, checking in for my first work meditation.


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