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NREM Stage 1 Large mug $40 Glazed Ceramics

[dathun]

NREM Stage 1: Shots $5 each Glazed Stoneware.

[dathun]

NREM Stage 1:

Espresso cups

$10 each

Glazed Stoneware.

[dathun]

NREM Stage 1 Cup Set sold Glazed Stoneware.

[dathun]

NREM Stage 1: Collection 

2019

[theuniverseworks]

"Other people present us with a challenge because they are 'other,' and because we have a lot of ideas about how things are supposed to be. So, when we relate to other people the journey is a process of seeing how we’re holding back, trying to hang out in our own opinions, and then there's the invitation to let go of those opinions. And it doesn’t matter who they are. They could be a criminal locked up in jail, but you know, it’s the same exact process. We think, 'Well there are certain people who I don't really have to make an effort with because they’re too far out; they’re a fundamentalist, or a criminal, or they’re in a mental institution." Actually, there are no excuses. There are *no excuses.* In the Vajrayana we are never ‘off the hook’ in terms of the call for intimacy with the 'other.' We learn so much about ourselves in the process. So when we think about non-aggression towards other people, and then we look at our culture, we realize how radical this work is."

Reggie Ray -Taken from a talk during the 2009 Dathun Winter Retreat

[utnereader-blog]

What would a month of meditation do for you? In the portrait series “Before and After,” Peter Seidler photographs participants on their first and last days of dathun, a 30-day group meditation retreat. He tells the Shambhala Times:

I set up the “Before and After” project to explore the observable effects on practitioners after long periods of intense meditation practice. The question is: what are the observable changes after a period of intense practice?

Each participant in the project was asked to simply sit for a portrait on first day of dathun.... I photographed them against a consistent background. Prior to the photograph, I asked each person to consider what they were looking for in the practice period ahead. This was on day number one. Then, at the end of the program, after approximately thirty days of retreat, I asked each participant in the project to sit in front of the same background and asked each to consider what the experience of mediation retreat had been for them.... It’s clear from the results that the person in every one of the portraits has undergone an important transformative experience. I leave it to the viewer to draw their own conclusion.

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