outtakes from Germany 🇩🇪


Hey!

I’m back from Winterberg, knocking off a quick catch-up since I don’t have my usual weeklong lead time on this newsletter.

I want to tell you so much about the last 10 days.

I screamed. I cried. I felt torn apart. I laughed. I loved that I did it.

All of it was worth throughout the ten days:
>> the Catapult Launch
>> the elevated Dark Ride Curve
>>the Heartline Roll, and
>> ending into the grand finale of the Giga Coaster...

When you’re having a discussion with a 'roller coaster' enthusiast, it’s easy to get lost in the conversation, or at some point think, "What the heck are you talking about?"

Let me put you on the path to becoming a roller coaster decipherer, or give you some pointers to the Roller Coaster Jargon Terminology 101:

We were like little coaster trains launched from a standing start, compressed and shooted right onto the Dark Ride Curve, into the depths of your heart, descending and ascending in windshield rattling, reeling, ears raging, heaving and upchucking curves before the coaster trains got twisted and turned upside down in the 'heartline roll', all the while the rider’s heart remained in line with the center of gravity, till you’re dropped by the Giga Coaster, whiplashed into fuzzy black gravitational force, entrails coiling, clenched teeth to unyielding 300-foot-free fall release, safely returned back to the start...allowing you to take a short breath, before the whole ride starts again and again and again…

The view from the coaster train was worth the price of admission.

The retreat was a blast. It absolutely was.

It also concluded the series on the Ten Fundamental Patterns of the Consciousness:
#1 Fixed Expectations and Hiding & Avoiding
#2 Polarized Thinking and Over-Generalizazion
#3 Self-Centeredness and Greediness
#4 Unfounded Suspicion and Negativity
#5 Stubbornness and Competiveness

We had a fully stuffed schedule, boot camp style of hours of practicing, keeping building up the skyscraper, getting together in small and close group activities, meeting new life cultivators, and, yearningly and tears strippingly holding the ones you felt this deep-felt bond through Zoom for years, finally in a tight embrace, in the flesh. We talked a lot about our hearts, had wonderful heart-Qi healing sessions, AND something very very very very precious:

Our teachers removed the usual filters and were going in with full strength.

I loved it!

It was everything and nothing at all I had dreamed of.

Everyone left with nourished hearts, years of new tasks to continue to work on ourselves, and renewed forward momentum to carry us through the next ordeals that are inevitably part of life cultivation.

It is dedicating your life to Zi Du Du Ren. Uplifting your own life and helping others do the same.

It’s a mission and commitment that has to come from the depths of your heart.

It is a journey inward.

I was clear what I wanted to achieve in this retreat. Dispatching myself into hidden unknown places I had not dared to go, look or allow to be touched, or were even willing to admit they existed. Coming face to face with myself, and getting new tasks to work on for the future. So many pieces were spinning into place, which was amazing.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me.

Oh, I obviously didn’t get to tell you about the teachers group presentation on day 8, or that nothing went as planned, or that in the end only 5 minutes were left to share my story, and eventually, I had to make a decision and let go of it and instead…

…shared this from our teacher Yuan Tze to the audience and now to you:

On this note, I have a gift to leave with you:
'Losing out is a blessing.' (吃虧是福)

This is a common Chinese saying, not my invention. I hope you can try to understand it and put it into practice. I would say that you can expect real and significant change to your life if you do. Start with the thing you find most difficult to let go. Something you care about a great deal or something you are very afraid to lose. Learn to let go. This is not giving up. It is letting go emotionally and mentally so you can no longer be controlled by your compulsion to acquire and to hang on to what you have acquired. When you can do that, you will truly benefit. Without letting go, you won’t have the space to truly gain.

I’m certain, I’m gonna share some more insights in the coming newsletters.

❤️ Mirjam

Mirjam Blank
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