Reading my own notes from Vipassana

I sat a 10-day silent retreat in 2025. I came home and wrote nothing for a week, and then I wrote too much, and then I forgot most of it.

The line I keep coming back to a year later: most of what I call "thinking" is reaction with a longer time-constant. Watching the reaction without grabbing it doesn't make it go away. It just stops compounding.

The work hasn't stuck. The pointer has.