Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (seventh post)
Last updated on 3rd April 2009
And here's a briefer seventh Moroccan post looking a little at the internal "meditative methods" being used by various of us in the desert.
So at the lunch siesta today I asked our group what they had been doing in their heads while they were walking. One person talked about simply "being with the walking and the breath". They're a dancer and spoke of "dancing with the wind". They said something too about "headlessness". That took me back to the Incredible String Band and their 1960's song about Douglas Traherne Harding who lectured on "headlessness". I remember staying the night at Douglas's home nearly 40 years ago!