How to Meditate on a Silent Retreat

After having written a book called advice not given it's nice to be asked to give some advice about this. I always joke that when I go on those silent week long or two week long or month long whatever they are meditation retreats where one is supposed to be meditating all the time. And so just doing all of that stuff there's like about an hour that's left in the morning and an hour in the afternoon to meditate. But the point of secluding oneself away at a retreat like that is that meditation doesn't have to happen just in a sitting posture. The idea behind meditation is to try to be as aware as possible of whatever it is that's happening in the moment