What We Do for Love
I love going on silent retreats. My first was three days long. My longest was two months. I’d love to sit a longer retreat — maybe even a full year, like a friend of mine recently did at the Forest Refuge.
But what about sitting a four-year silent retreat!?!
That’s what Bill and Susan Morgan did! Beginning in the fall of 2009.
Seems kind of crazy, right? From a “normal life” view of things, of course it IS!
But then, isn’t love always some kind of “crazy”?
Check it out:
“Now, in a series of seven videos entitled A Deeper Dive, the couple reflect on their extraordinary experiences at the Forest Refuge. They speak about how they came to the idea to commit to such a prolonged period of practice, the challenges they faced along the way, and several profound insights they gleaned both about themselves as individuals, and as a couple, practicing side-by-side every day, without speaking, for four years.”
– from Insight Meditation Society Sangha News