{"id":427,"date":"2013-06-12T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/?p=427"},"modified":"2013-06-12T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T03:04:09","slug":"questhaven-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Questhaven 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuesthavenGang\"<\/a>Mostly we missed Ezra and Elizabeth. We worried, we catastrophized, we were sad. But we also practiced with our reactions. We showed up; we were sitting on our cushions at the beginning of every period. We sat and we supported each other. We didn’t leave.<\/p>\n

We stepped up.<\/p>\n

When Ezra had to leave, I had a little internal tantrum. I would leave! I spent a period between bells planning my escape. But then I decided to stay another period. During which Chuck asked us to imagine what it would be like if we did not swat away the flies. I snarled at him as a fly buzzed into each of my ears. But I did not swat them away. Nor the next. I was still.<\/p>\n

Claudia lead the mindful movement practice with grace and care.<\/p>\n

Al’s second talk was a delight: a Zen ancestor and Shakespeare. And there were moments where I felt a king of infinite space within the nutshell of sesshin.<\/p>\n

At the second gatha walk, Steve reminded us that the oxygen we breathed had been breathed by all the life around us–the trees, the dragonflies–and I was aware of my place in the world in a larger way. And then he said, “What requirements do you have? Is there too much sun? Too much shade? Is it too steep? Too long? Too short?” That question stayed with me throughout sesshin, sharpening my practice.<\/p>\n

Sho-san was intense. The sun through the oak leaves was soft and shifting. We told the stories of our sesshin, of our difficulty, our fear, our grief, our moments of clarity. Our gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mostly we missed Ezra and Elizabeth. We worried, we catastrophized, we were sad. But we also practiced with our reactions. We showed up; we were sitting on our cushions at the beginning of every period. We sat and we supported each other. We didn’t leave. We stepped up. When Ezra had to leave, I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}