The very popular S.N. Goenka style Vipassana retreats are taught around the world by video dhamma talk, and are a consistent 10-days of silence, starting with three and a half days of anapanasati (breath awareness) instruction and the remaining days introducing the body-sweeping technique as originally taught by U Ba Khin. Actually, my first long [...]
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Selfish selflessness
Posted by sharanam on August 9, 2009
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/selfish-selflessness/
Everything called into question
So there were two parallel transformations going on while I was in Mongolia. The first involved the putting into daily practice one of the deepest heart connections I have ever experienced with another person, and had previously had in an almost exclusively verbal and intellectual realm from afar; and the second involved seeing how simply [...]
Posted by sharanam on June 28, 2009
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/everything-called-into-question/


