During this retreat, we will explore the question: ‘How does Pure Being experience each moment?’

Step by step, and sometimes in big leaps, we are asked to courageously taste all of life - the good, the bad and the utterly incomprehensible profundity of life.

Writing this text, I hear the distinctive call of an owl and then a loud scream. It sends chills down my spine.  A predator has caught it’s prey and is eating it.  Such a raw, painful and delicious experience depending on which side you are on. For the eater, it’s fantastic to be devouring food and satisfying its hunger. For the prey being eaten, there could be fear, terror, excruciating pain or perhaps instant surrender or the ecstasy of death. Who knows?

That is life on earth. It can be very painful and very pleasurable. It is raw and oh so tender and everything in between.…