Around 100 people joined the five-day silent retreat about emptiness and impermanent at KMC New York. It was held in the middle of spring with flowers everywhere and great weather. The retreat was a reminder that just like the now fading flowers, everything is impermanent.

As Buddha says in the Vinaya Sutras:
"The end of collection is dispersion.
The end of rising is falling.
The end of meeting is parting.
The end of birth is death"