Retreat Diaries

What is a meditation retreat really like?

A searchable library of real, first-person retreat write-ups. Filter by tradition, length and what happened: boredom, breakthrough, or a rough patch.

How this works. We read each story and write our own short summary, then link to the original. The "how it went" dots are our reading of the author's own overall verdict, from 1 (very hard) to 5 (very positive). They are not reviews of the center.
What happened:

A quiet note, now and then

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