出自一篇文章的描述， 挺有意思。
翻译过来，大家共赏！原文： https://www.mindful.org/a-house-that-wont-blow-down/
Many people wonder, “What exactly do you do on a meditation retreat?” It’s pretty simple. Let me give you a basic description: You decide to take a few days off to meditate with some other people. On day one, you sit and pay attention to your body and breath for 30 or 45 minutes. Then you walk back and forth, back and forth. When it’s time to eat, you eat in silence. Then, you sit and pay attention to your body and your breath and walk around some more, eat in silence, and so forth and so on. You do that day in, day out. It’s a great time. You really should try it.
很多人都想知道，“禅修营到底做什么呢？”相当简单。我给你简单说说：你决定休息几天和一些人一起禅修。第一天，坐着关注身体直觉和呼吸，大概30~45分钟。然后走回来，再走回去。 吃饭的时候，就安静的吃。然后有坐着关注身体知觉和呼吸，再走几圈，静静的饮食，诸如此类。就干这些事，从天亮到天黑。感觉很好。你真应该试试。
OK, I’ll admit: When I put it that way, it’s pretty hard to sell this stuff. It doesn’t exactly sound like a day at the spa, yet so many people who try it keep coming back. Why is that?
好吧 ， 我保证：当我这么说的时候， 很难让你动心。这可真不是做一天的SPA，但是很多上过的人，都会再去， 这是为什么呢？
If you talk to people at a retreat, they often say things like, “I just sit here struggling to be present. I feel one breath, then my mind is all over the place for I don’t know how long, and then I come back, occasionally. I have maybe a couple of moments of awareness in a 45-minute sitting. When we start walking, I ponder my life while still trying hard to be mindful. When we come back and sit, I continue racing around in my head. At lunch, I think about how little time I spent really meditating that whole morning.
如果你和上过禅修营的人聊聊，他们经常会这么说：“我就是坐在这里，挣扎着活在当下。 我感觉一个呼吸，然后我的意识就跑到了别的地方，也不知道过了多久，偶尔， 我又回来。在45分钟的静坐，我还会有一些觉察的时刻。当我们开始正念行走的时候，当我尽可能保持正念的时候，我还是思考我的人生。散步回来，继坐下， 想法继续在脑子里盘旋。吃午饭的时候，我就在想整个早上，我到底花了多点时间在禅修啊”。
“But after lunch I go for a little walk, and all of a sudden the world looks really vivid. I notice the stones on the ground, and they really stand out. They’re distinctive. I see beads of moisture on their surface. What a beautiful place!”
但是午饭后，我又走了一会，突然整个世界变得好透亮啊。我注意到了地面的石头，他们很显而易见，却又与众不同。我看到石头表面的湿气的露珠。 多美的地方啊。
