I didn’t have this realisation during the retreat, but in the months that followed (because I had been regularly practising). During the retreat, however, I di

I didn’t have this realisation during the retreat, but in the months that followed (because I had been regularly practising). During the retreat, however, I did experience more clear mindedness, and more compassion than before. There was a moment when someone’s behaviour irked me and kicked off a spiral of negative thinking (all very easy to rationalise by the way!). But I soon snapped out of it and felt compassion for that person and let it go. It’s a process.