3 days chan retreat conducted by Guo Yi Fa Shi (of Dharma Drum Mountain)

Happy to be able to spend the X'mas period on a retreat (25-28th)

Besides sitting meditation,
there was walking meditation, chanting, yoga, work practice...

and even morning/evening movies too haha =P (actually they are lectures by Chan Master Sheng Yen shown on DVD)

All we need to do was to remember this verse,

"Where the body is, the mind is there"

that's all, simple isn't it? =)

But my ego doesn't like that, my little mind keeps trying to escape from the present moment, resist things-as-it-is or to make something special out this ordinary moment...

so moment to moment, i watched my little mind play out little episodes of drama...

sometimes the little mind has enough of the ramblings and there was just the simple moment of just sitting, just walking, just doing yoga without all the commentary but too bad, the peaceful moments came too little too late and it was time to go home haha =P