Chan Retreat Reports
At the end of each of our Chan (Chinese Zen) retreats participants are asked, if they wish to do so, to submit a written retreat report. This gives us valuable help in understanding the retreat process. These reports also provide some insight into the difficulties and benefits of attending a retreat. We publish some of these accounts anonymously in New Chan Forum.
This pages lists reports submitted by participants of Chan Retreats. Other pages list reports from participants of Western Zen Retreats and Other Retreats.
The retreat reports are quite varied, most being in prose but some in poetry, some reporting on good experiences and some on the difficulties. Some comment on the retreat process and meditation experience, whereas others comment on the novelty of finding oneself in the unusual environment of a silent retreat, or on the self-confrontation which can occur on retreat.
- Contemplating Earth
- A Moment in Dokusan
- Maenllwyd May 1990
- Who is Dragging this Old Corpse
- Chan Retreat May 1990
- How to be Me
- A Chinese in Wales
- On Meeting a Monster
- A Guestmaster's View
- Where's the Trick
- Raising the Doubt
- What Can I Say
- Seeing the Nature
- Mind in Flow
- Why Why Why
- Joy and Silence
- The Little Nun
- Wind and Silence
- Making Friends With The Universe
- So Wonderful
- A Nameless Dread
- All Things are Teachers
- No Success, No Failure
- Black Slugs
- Immeasurable Sweetness
- What Has Happened To The Entity That Was Me?
- So Much More Fun
- John Crook: Working with a Master
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