Notes from Clear Sky Mind day retreat

My notes from Clear Sky Mind day retreat](https://meditateinwellington.org/events/clear-sky-mind-day-retreat/?occurrence=2024-07-06). These aren’t exactly what was taught, more like what it brought up for me.

• Aiming for a clear, calm, mind is still chasing a state. And because it’s a state, it will arise and pass away.
  • What’s always available? The clarity and stillness of the context of consciousness.
• There’s nothing wrong with, there’s no problem with, the body, having a busy mind.
• My practice is often circling around acceptance.
• Clouds in the sky look different, pretty, from above. Compare that to being underneath them, caught in a downpour. But it’s the same clouds!
• The sky, the clarity, doesn’t go anywhere. We don’t need to move to get there. We just need to let go. We just need to see that the clouds aren’t a problem (unless we think they’re a problem).
• Perception is participation. What (story) are you adding?
• Un-cover, dis-cover, the truth.

Added 2024-07-07.