'Doing Time, Doing Vipassana' video available on youtube
Such a wonderful and inspiring video!!! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPaacnLyDs&feature=related
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Introduction to Vipassana (SN Goenka) video
I just watched this sweet intro. below, thought I'd share :)
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new video on the children's/teens course, 'Seeds Of Awareness'
My husband and kids just watched this, it's beautiful!!!
http://www.children.dhamma.org/en/videos/seeds.shtml
Three of my kids have gone on multiple children and teen courses and my oldest has gone on 3 adult courses. The children/teen courses
Read more…Information for a newbie
Hi All meditators
I have done some meditating over the past couple of years and a friend told me about the Vipassana 10 course a while ago.
Since going 811about five months ago and then seeing a thread for this group, I decided to look into it.
Today, I
Read more…Can we be liberated and still live a "normal" life amongst those who still think suffering is just part of life?
Actually I have another question too... Vipassana, as I understand it, is about liberating the mind from conditioning and thereby making it possible to see reality for what it is without attaching [subjective] emotions to it, and it's about acquiring
Read more…Illinois Vipassana Meditation Center Dhamma Pakãsa Pecatonica, Illinois
Anyone been to this center for the 10 day course? It's the closest one to where I live (4-5hr. drive). The MI one and MN are both about a 8-10hr. drive, they are non-center's though, I don't know exactly what that means.
If so, were they accommodating
next time you smoke
He said, "Meditation out of smoking?” I said, “Yes. If Zen people
can make a meditation out of drinking tea and can make it a
ceremony, why not? Smoking can be as beautiful a meditation.”
He looked thrilled. He said, “What are you saying?”
man is a machine
just beautiful words
Man is a machine. Man is not born to be a machine, but man lives like a machine and dies like a machine. Man has the seedof a great flowering of consciousness, man has the possibility to become God,but that doesn't happen. It does
Read more…How much do you meditate guys?
Recently I was loosing a major battle trying to fit into my day at least 8 hours of sleep, a morning ritual of 1 liter of water, push ups, 40 min run, shower, 3 meals a day, fruit shopping, work, and on top of all this - meditation.
How do you guys ma
New to Vipassana? Read this brief introduction to the technique:
The Technique
Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by Gotama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was taught by him as a universal remedy for universal ill
Read more…Nice Dhamma talk!
"Today we bring you audo and video of a talk given by Dr. Paul Fleischman while he was in Europe in December 2007. In this talk he discusses Karma and Chaos and how they are relevant to Vipassana mediation."
What is the benefit of taking a course?
As opposed to reading up on it and trying on your own?
(This question was posted on the comments section, I put this on here because it's easier to chat about it on the discussion format.) :)
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eating 811 on a course
My husband did one course staying on 811 in Texas. We packed 10 days worth of salads. I pre-washed the lettuce and put a serving in 10 green keeper bags. I brought a jar of dressing and washed carrots to be served with the lettuce each day for lun
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