I was lucky enough to be part of the community at Gaia House this last weekend, for a silent meditation retreat with John Peacock and Christina Feldman, both very high-flyers in the western Buddhist and mindfulness world. It felt a genuine privilege to be taught by two people steeped in not just the profound intellectual and historical tradition of Buddhism, but, just as importantly, if not more crucially, in the experience to be derived from those teachings. Again and again,