And sesshin is simply a refusal to meet our expectations! From beginning to end a sesshin is designed to frustrate us! Inevitably, it gives us some pain, mental or physical. It’s a prolonged experience of “It’s not the way I want it!” When we sit with that, there’s always a residue of change left in us. In some cases it’s very obvious. But the people who do best in sesshin are usually the ones who have not sat many sesshins.
