Developing Shamatha or calm abiding, requires a firm basis of ethical conduct, which itself requires good mindfulness. These two qualities assist daily life and can prepare us for longer retreat. The mindfulness meditation for this retreat will focus on our body, feelings, mind and phenomena. These four objects, taught by the Buddha, are skilful objects of focus. Efforts in mindfulness and continuity on them engenders experience, understanding, wisdom of our reality. So any knowledge we may have on how to transform our present reality can seem more straightforward, more easy.