As most of you know, I make a retreat of 100 days every year. Usually, I have the retreat posted on the site to give people the opportunity to make offerings of sur and butterlamps, sharing the merit.
This year I decided not to post about it and keep the retreat secret, as it should be: an individual practice, not a reason to show off. I am very careful to use all the hours I have to do practice and do the retreat as intense as possible. A Sangha member prepares my meals so I don’t need to cook and therefore have more time to practice.
But it turned out someone showed up at the Gonpa and expected to see me because they didn’t know I was in retreat, and this made me lose between 3 and 4 hours that I could be practicing. This made me sad, because it was a cause of bad karma for this person to have made someone interrupt a retreat and lose many hours of practice. Because of this, I decided to post and let people know that am not available to receive people or answer emails during retreat time.
Until then, as I had a busy activity schedule already set up for 2018, I will make a break in my retreat from Oct 5th – 7th. Then, on Saturday Oct 27th I will have completed the 100 days of retreat.
The Gonpa’s visiting schedule is the same as always: Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 4pm.
May all benefit!