How to Be Afraid of Being Left Out of a Retreat

"I don't expect people to stop talking when i come into a room. Why shouldn't? Ia?" "There's nothing i like more than sitting down at a meal with a whole group of you round the table and to be completely ignored by you," he says. 'It's in these kind of behaviours where a sense of hierarchy is established' He adds that if you're asking me a question, you temporarily become a teacher. But if i ask you a question, then i become your student and you become my teacher. We're just friendsw no hierarchy at all."