Miami County Zin Retreat

Miami County Zin Meditation Retreat
January 25 and 26, Two Thousand Ot Seven
Cost: Free

Retreat Schedule:
Thursday, January 25
0400-0800 Sunrise Breakfast
Menu: Coffee and Khalua
Location: Sunporch

Activities: Oil or Watercolor Painting, Tibetan Incense Meditation, Zen Mondo Writing .

0800-0830 Break: Sponsored by Mickey’s Big Mouth. A Mickey’s Meditation Moment.

0830-1200 Annual Dear Antler Walkabout – Looking for shed dear antlers in the timber.
Location: Woods south of the house.
Activities: Seeking out wood nymphs who showed up last week, Looking for shed dear antlers, Accompanying The Old Ones* while practicing T’ai Chi walking techniques.

1200-1230 Break – No Food due to temporary fasting from daylight to sundown.
Activities: Mickey’s Meditation Moment, Pat dogs on the head.
Location: Middle Creek Winery Office

1230-1600 Grape vine pruning, Vineyard No. 1.
Activities: Set fire to several brush piles, do some chainsaw work along with pruning vines.
(3:00-3:10) Contemplation of reaching Point Alpha. Completion of 57th Revolution.
1600-1630 Mickey’s Meditation Moment
Location: Middle Creek Winery Office

1630-Sundown Evening meal preparation.
Menu: Curry Rice with Vegetables
Zinfandel Wine (Christmas Gift)

Sundown - ?? Evening meal and contemplative music.
Activities: Play guitar, sing, read, talk.
Evening Refreshment: Unfiltered Port Wine d’Espagne
Retiring: Practice Dream Yoga all night. Write down dreams for publication on Darjeeling blogsite.
*The Old Ones: Thus Gone Ones Who Teach Qi Gong and T’ai Chi. (See Also: Darjeeling Archive for reference.)



Friday, January 26

0400-0800 Sunrise Breakfast
Activities: Painting, Contemplation, Music, Work on Musical Instruments
Tibetan Medicinal Incense Meditation.
Location: Sunporch
Breakfast: Coffee and Khalua

0800-0830 Mickey’s Meditation Moment
Location: Living Room

0830-1200 Grapevine Pruning – Vineyard No. 1

1200-1230 Break – No Food (Due to fasting sunup to sundown.)
Location: Middle Creek Winery Fermentation Room
Activities: Planning Fermentation Room and Tasting Room Layout.

1230-1600 Grapevine Pruning – Vineyard No. 1
Activities: Being Mindful, Contemplation of Traveling Through Space.
Action At A Distance (Einsteinian), Focusing On The Planet That Orbits Upsilon Andromeda, Watching for Shadow People, and Wood Nymphs.

(3:00-3:30) Mickey’s Meditation Moment
Location: Middle Creek Winery Fermentation Room.
Music: The Fugs – “Try To Be Joyful”
Tom Petty

1600-1630 Mickey’s Meditation Moment
Location: Middle Creek Winery Office
Music: Neil Young

1630-Sundown Evening Meal Preparation
Menu: Grilled Chicken
Chardonnay Wine

Sundown-?? Evening Music, Discussion, Contemplation, Meditation, Being Joyful.
Evening Refreshment: Champagne

Retiring: Continue With Dream Yoga Practice, Write Down Dreams, End Retreat.

Dream Of The Wood Nymphs

Naked except for their quiver of arrows,
Carrying a short bow,
The two wood nymphs appeared at the tree line,
Stalking me by pointing the notched arrow,
Speaking to me,
Cajoling me to come closer,
Enticing me with their nakedness,
Until the taller of the two drew back the bow,
Charging toward her and brushing the dart aside,
I took hold of the bow,
The other one had circled behind me,
I heard the nock of the arrow,
Looking at the first one directly in her eyes I said,
“I think you are beautiful.”
“You do?”
The smaller one now came and sat before me,
The two of them drawing in the dirt with the arrowheads,
The older one’s hair was pulled back,
Its color the same as her and her sister’s golden skin,
She spoke in some elfin language,
She laughed when I didn’t understand,
Repeating herself in English,
“You have caught my bow,
I will hunt you no more,
My sister and I have been here a long time,
We will be here again,
When you come back to find us.”