Although it has been over a month, I will tell you a little more of retirement.
In general, it was good: the first day I grate a little and gave me the world over (thoughts like "I do not want to continue meditating," I do not know why people are upset, "" Buddhism is useless "), but I spent the next day. The rest of the retreat was normal, with knee pain and the feeling of doing nothing useful in the sitting (that happened to me on all withdrawals from the second day), but, unlike other times, this time I did not very long day, neither my interminable stay in retirement. I was aware I was there a week, and I seemed to be an eternity. I really do not know if this is good or bad.
One last anecdote about the question and answer session, someone asked Ajahn Abhinando what to do when mosquitoes stinging our wish and we do not want to bite us. Do you keep the first commandment (refraining from killing)? Abhinando said that the provisions are unclear, but it should not take them as if they were commandments are frameworks in which to frame our practice, a kind of moral guide to progress without problems on the road. However, the world is not black and white, but there are many gray, and that is where we must decide what to do. Abhinando recommended us to be more creative and find other solutions to the problem that does not involve jumping the precepts, but sometimes there is no way out other than breaking them. And then we have to, and accept the possible consequences of that decision.
For example, we are told of Ajahn Buddhadasa, the already have spoken before . Buddhadasa is considered one of the most important Thai teachers of the twentieth century, and his writings, which you can read on the Internet, are very direct and intense. An interesting type. Well, Buddhadasa used to be always close to a group of roosters (if you do not believe me, look photo). The cocks were so used to it (and he to the roosters) that rose into his arms and his head quietly. If, while a rooster walking in his arm, sat a mosquito on the other, Buddhadasa just had to move the hand to bring the rooster, the poor insect, and thus solve the problem. Abhinando said we could put Buddhadasa purists and say that the rooster was helping to kill the mosquito but the essence is that we should not "get Taliban", as my girlfriend.
order to live, others must die. This is a reality and look at it look. The first provision gives us a framework where to move and avoid killing's sake, but it is clear that everything we do involves the death of a live (and if not think of the parasites, infections, etc). The best we can do is be aware of this and accept it. Get silly to take the precepts to the letter just causes us more suffering ...
Indeed, Jerome told me he saw Buddhadasa kill mosquitoes to swat, and it did not seem too concerned about hiding. It seems that the man had clear!
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