{"id":657,"date":"2009-06-17T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/shambhala-level-one-weekend-retreat-real-world-report.html"},"modified":"2009-06-17T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:41:06","slug":"shambhala-level-one-weekend-retreat-real-world-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/shambhala-level-one-weekend-retreat-real-world-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Shambhala Level One Weekend Retreat Real World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the gym, riding an indoor bike in a glass enclosed room inside the place. Since this weekend&#8217;s retreat, been trying to maintain the gap between habitual conditioned response and actual reality. Not easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This lady comes in to clean the windows of this glass box. She starts spraying and squeegeeing, \u00a0I keep pedalling and thinking. \u00a0Thoughtstream: what a crappy job. I wonder what she gets paid? I hope I never have to do that as a job. \u00a0I wonder if she has kids. I wonder where she&#8217;s from, what she&#8217;s thinking. I admire her fierceness for wearing big gold hoop earrings even though she is doing cleaning stuff. \u00a0Then, I remember to stop. And then&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>Space<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Space<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Space<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And suddenly the thought enters my head, more of a feeling really, expressed as words. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I become grateful\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>that I have this opportunity\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>to watch the universe\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>cleaning its own windows.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the gym, riding an indoor bike in a glass enclosed room inside the place. Since this weekend&#8217;s retreat, been trying to maintain the gap between habitual conditioned response and actual reality. Not easy.\u00a0 This lady comes in to clean the windows of this glass box. 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