In February 2015 Beth and I attended 2015 Mahamudra retreat taught by Tilmann and Gelek. This retreat was really deep and clarified a lot of issues we’ve been having with our practice and motivated us to really make the most of the precious opportunity we have at the land to be able to focus on meditation as our highest priority. With Tilmann’s help we’ve created this daily schedule which we’ll try and follow every day until the next retreat in February 2016.
| Time | Activity | Details & Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | Get up | |
| 06:30 | Breakfast | |
| 07:00 | 1hr yoga | try to maintain meditative presence throughout this |
| 08:00 | Comms | email, facebook, twitter, news for me, various projects for Beth |
| 09:30 | Work | paid work for me (if any) various projects for Beth |
| 11:00 | 1hr meditation | nine-breething & shamatha/vipassana/mahamudra |
| 12:00 | Lunch break | includes some relaxation time |
| 14:00 | Land work | digging well, cutting grass, planting etc |
| 16:00 | ½hr meditation | reading Buddhist text and then various compassion and heart types such as tonglen |
| 17:00 | Fun activity | e.g. fight club, hackey sack etc |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 | ½hr meditation | nine-breething & shamatha/vipassana/mahamudra |
| 20:30 | Relaxation | resting and talk about practice |
| 21:00 | Bed time |