They won't have anything to read or access to the Internet or television. They won't be able to snack between meals.
And while they're usually busy business people, they won't be able to answer e-mails or go to meetings or write memos or make phone calls.
In one sense, nothing will happen during those 10 days. In another sense, the people will emerge transformed.
..........When cut off from constant entertainment and input, and required to do something that seems as simple as watching the breath, the mind can suddenly start to look like a upended cauldron of memories, desires, frustration and anticipation. The center's boot-camp environment is structured to support people as they wade through the deluge, and out the other side.
"It's facing those internal reactive habit patterns that we carry around with us day in and day out, learning to face our own reactions with a balanced mind, that's what's a challenge," Crutcher said. "This is an intensive practice where a lot of deep turbulent stuff comes welling up, and sometimes it's more than a person can face at the moment."
Read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2006/07/03/focus2.html
Info regarding center: http://www.kunja.dhamma.org/
