Hey Leo here for actualized.org and isn't this something different so this is more of a video

blog style of video and I'll tell you in a second why that is and what's going on here but I'm sitting in my car and I'm

outside my apartment complex and I'm getting ready to go on a trip so what I'm

doing here is a solo meditation retreat.

It's going to be 10 days, well, really, nine days of solid meditation,

non-stop meditation in a place that I rented basically I rented a house in the middle of a forest in Arizona.

I live in Las Vegas.

This what you're seeing behind me is Las Vegas. This, what you're seeing behind me, is Las Vegas. Sunny Las Vegas, it's beautiful

spring here right now in April. And I am going to be doing a six hour drive all the way to the middle of Arizona,

where it's rather foresty. You might think that Arizona is a desert,

but actually there's a forest there.

So in the middle of this pine forest is going to be my meditation

retreat and it's just going to be myself. So this is an idea that I got a

while ago from doing Vipasna retreats. Now Vipasna retreats are great, I recommend you do them,

but the problem with them is that you're there with a bunch of people.

And to me, meditation is at its peak when it's so low.

So when I go meditating, I like to meditate by myself.

Even when I do a Vipossean retreat, I'll just sit in my room

and meditate there the whole day or the whole week.

And that's worked well for me because I tend to be a pretty introverted individual

and I don't like to do group meditation to me that defeats the whole purpose of why I meditate.

So that's why I'm doing this solo trip.

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