Well AgentB, Justcappy was there too. I hear from him that you two have met already.
I met Anita and Justcappy, the fastest sword fingers in the west. I found Justcappy and he picked up on my ID clue. He pointed Anita my way the next break. Which is a good thing, since walking around looking at people chest can eventually get you in trouble. 
Shawn mentioned that the meditations were longer. Well he's right. We did some nice long active meditations; things like level II sword fingers for 20 minutes. Then some long multiple sitting meditations. We did several group healing exercises and some chanting.
My favourite were the evening meditations. So quiet, so still, I had my most powerful experiences to date. Personally, my experiences became almost (or maybe actually) over-powering. On the first night as we neared the end of the meditation, my sensations became very strong and more than a little uncomfortable. I left the focus of the meditation to relax (open my channels) for a few seconds, then return to the meditation. This eased the intensity, but as I returned to the meditation the intensity immediate returned. Staying with it, I could visualize a ring of what looked like boiling energy around my lower dan tien, which as quiet and dark. Then suddenly the ring of energy wooshed up my body.
The next thing I realize is there's a hand on my back and I don't feel like I'm sitting upwards anymore. Well, I'm still holding the hand postures. I flicker my eyes and saw the legs of the person sitting beside me. I'd passed out / black out / lost consciousness and slumped onto her lap. As I sat up I saw Master Lin working on me and I tried to return to the meditation. The strong feeling of nausea remain, but the energy was ranging all over. I continued for a few more minutes, but as soon as Master Lin started into the meditation ending excerise I laid on the floor and did the closing from there.
The second night I has the same sort of experience, but since I'd had some idea of what I might expect I stayed with it longer. I bailed out before I got the wooshing sensation and laid on the floor. I couldn't get as deep again, while on the floor, although it was deep enough to maintain the nausa.
However, this time when I went through the relax/open channels and back to meditation several times, I learned how to turn up the intensity of the experience. Guess what it's just like Master Lin says. 
Who would have figured that one. 
A lot (most of this stuff) I take on faith, until I experience it myself. This isn't something I recall being described, however it may just be another form of percieved physical discomfort and energy is moved.
In retrospect I wish I hadn't bailed on the second night, since I'll now have to go through those experiences without the benefit of Master Lin on hand.
The retreat has re-invigorated my desires to proceed with and advance in SFQ. The challenge remains in finding the time to meditate. I'm looking at getting up at 4:00 am now.
Remember this was my experience, it not something that anyone else necessarily should expect to experience or need to experience in their own practice.
We did some good third eye work, and I look forward to doing more of this.
There was also a lot of technical information. My current interest / needs lie with the more general theory. A lot of the details on disease specific knowledge is not currently relevant, but of course some sinks in.
There as a significant amount of question and answers, about 40% from level I and II material. One answer I wish I had taken notes on was the answer to "What is the emptiness". Master Lin listed about six different aspects of experiencing the emptiness, which I believe he called levels. Not that the labelling he provide makes everything clear, but it would be nice to have the list. I'll have to check the level III manual for information, but since it was a response to a question and not part of the curriculum I don't have much hope.
Master Lin was more humourous that I had expected.
Well, that should be a bucket full.
You are perfection.
Iam2 
