I am doing a 5 day silent retreat from tomorrow (Wednesday) until next Monday, just wanted to let you all know and wish you a NIColicious week!
I really need to spend some time away from everything, including the net, and just meditate and do yoga, i feel the privilge of being able to do this and can't wait for the peace and silence to wash it's healing waves through me!
I will miss you all and the forum, I know you will keep the castle a safe and happy place for Sir Nicolas and all our friends of the Cagealot realm!
A silent retreat means no forms of communication including the net...and i might be ever so slightly addicted to the virtual world so....wish me luck!
We'll miss you dear Lady A! Your retreat sounds wonderful. If I could, I would sooooooooo join you! Have no worries tho.....Lady T and I will hold down the fort! Now relax....and enjoy! Much love.......
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"Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls" ~~~~Khalil Gibran~~~~
for which I am filled with anticipation, Sprocket! we will be your first customers!
to give another perspective on the busy life / work / meditation thing.. I consider it a privilge to have choices, to have freeedom, to be able to work, to choose to do that if that is what you choose, a choice i myself have not had for 10 years being ill all that time and bedbound for the last 5. lol, living like a monk has it's advantages and disadvantages, choosing to do so would be a better scenario so maybe balance is the ideal and ultimate state!
also i feel medition is a state of consciousness, not an act you do just sitting on the meditaion cushion..it is an inner beingness that IS through all things (including a busy ass job!) life itself is a meditaion if you choose it. it is like silence...the myth is that silence is a physical thing relating to lack of sound...whereas for me it is really just that inner spaciousness.. here all the time when you point your awareness at it! that too is choice in every moment
Anyway..thanks everyone, i am back!
Lady True..it was worse than that..i woke up the next day with this ridiculous urge to get on the net..it really is interesting to try to stop...i managed for two days then needed to physically remove my lap top and mobiles out of my space!! it is a very refresin experience though, thoroughly recommend it...staring at a screen is not something i missed after a while, but i did miss you all!
Wise words about life,thanks it reminds me of something.dont want to foolishy waste my precious life on something i dont like at all,but i did.i spent my half-childhood in bed and thought of all the fun i was missing,thank to my grandparents,parents and bros,yeas,they never give me up even if the world castme aside,breaking down in tears when i recalled that.im trying to love everyone appear in my life,and be grateful. longing for the lives of te ancients,they didnt need to face so many pros,just for the food and clothing..dont want retreat from life,hide or wall myself off,i just need a decent break.
Missed you too Lady True! Dear Tues, i am not completely sure i understand, but it sounds like your childhood was very hard and sad for you, i am so sorry. thank you for sharing and yes i agree, sometimes the painful experiences are a gift...because you realise so much about what is really important. Much love
sorry to bother again,im really a thick-skinned guy(i mean in the virtual world),so dear lula and all buddies please feel free to point out my faults Thanks from my heart Tues_manIc
LOL! oh my...i would far rather point out a person's beauty and gifts Tues! and believe me, i wasn't being flattering i genuinely meant, it was fine, a good thing, you shared! ok?! by the way, I have always assumed your were female but you just called yourself a guy, so are you male?
a guy?if i was a boy,my mom would freak out cuz i have two bros.frankly,i dressed myself as a naughty boy when i was little girl,that's why funny mistakes took place when i went to the female toilets....and now i cannot do severe exercise,but i am always interested in talking about current politics with my friends on the internet,most of them are male,and they would like call me Guy,beyond doubt you are not the first one it is not myself in real life，but thank you,faery queen.you always give me encouragements,what a kind person you are!!
we will be your first customers!
