That holiday on the beach

First day of this seven day retreat. It was soooo quiet this morning, in the early morning...

There wasn't even a sound of a bird. 

People are so beautiful when they are sitting still. They all look like buddha's. 

 Of course, I do know that everybody will have his or her thoughts. But that doesn't matter. Thoughts come and go. 

Like a thought about a nice holiday on the beach. Or me, thinking about the meal I'm going to cook. 

In the first day of such a retreat it is difficult not to cling to your thoughts. Not to make more thougts about it. 

But you musn't be that severe to yourself. Not severe, but also not too gentle..

Nico Tydeman, a dutch zenmaster says: don't cling, but live..in other words: 

If you are too attached to your thoughts, you live in the future or in the past.