Below are offered some brief reflections on the first ever Dancing Mountains Rohatsu Sessin:
Rohatsu evolving, deepening love for all beings, wondrously dancing with nurturing compassion expressed in many forms
Lovely. Offered by David Greenaway
Rohatsu Rohatsu where have you been?
I went to Unstone to sit with the Breen.
Rohatsu Rohatsu what did you there?
I sat on my cushion till I needed a chair.
(Inspired by sitting with my 3 year old grandson Benji) Offered by Chris Hannah
Deepening stillness
Ripening silence embracing us
Incense smoke cutting the cold air
Bells, darkness, light, muted dawns
Kitchen sounds and food scents
The axe blow of the fire alarm
Venus the morning star.
Offered by Michael
Half way through the retreat, after a level of concentration had developed and thought processes were attenuated and more a content of mind than ‘my thoughts’, a thought occurred that all this thinking was obscuring the true beauty and tragedy of life. However, this fairly superficial analysis was put into perspective as ‘I’ suddenly and unexpectedly dropped completely away and a situation arose that words fail to convey. The best I can do in hindsight to describe what is now a collection of memories and stories is to say that selflessness was experienced and limited life (that from the perspective of the ‘I’) was shown for the tragic illusion it is. This brief glimpse left me deeply sobbing for reasons I still don’t completely understand, but I remember there was some sense of sadness for the limited life we lead in relation to selfless reality.
Offered by anon.
Back to front page