Finding Bliss in the Challenge of Retreat at Clear Sky Center

It’s easy to idealize and romanticize meditation as a break from all your usual bullshit as you’re transported away to some more exalted and refined realm of the mind while on the cushion, and this was the attitude I had coming to Clear Sky Meditation Center on the 3-month Karma Yoga program. During the program I learned basic meditation practices and meditated with the group every day, but wasn’t really getting into the bliss states that I imagined were supposed to be happening. So I felt called to go deeper–I felt called to go on retreat.

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