Getting Back to Daily Life After a Retreat
Returning home after a positive retreat experience or after an especially strong meditation, it is easy to slip back into an ordinary relationship with the world, unless we are especially vigilant. This is part of the dynamic called picking up the contaminated aggregates in classic Buddhist meditation advice. The meditator will mechanically remember the person that she or he is expected to be in order to interact with others who “know them so well.” That is the game played with others, dancing the old story of complying with others expectations, but soon the meditator forgets that it was play-acting and returns to their old attitudes.
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