Recently completed a one-week silent Shamatha retreat with B. Alan Wallace and 60 of our closest friends! (this picture shows Alan teaching us under the Bhodi tree in Bodhgaya). There's so much conversation going on in your head when you stop talking! One of the key lessons to "hit me" was that everything we know about our current reality consists of "appearances to the mind". In other words, my reality is what "appears" to me. It is whatever I put my attention on and
expect to find!
