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 retreat and longest retreat to this day (about to change!) was also in this style. I have since explored other teachers because I found the technique as taught by Goenka quite rigid and because it’s very important to me to have a teacher that is teaching in an individual way, to exactly where I am now. That’s hard to do by video.
All posts tagged vimala thakar
Selfish selflessness
Posted by sharanam on August 9, 2009
https://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 people can live and contentedly so.
Ultimately, I was being faced with the decision between freedom and security. I chose freedom, even though it certainly felt like it was being chosen for me.
Posted by sharanam on June 28, 2009
https://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/everything-called-into-question/
Discussing
Feeds
-
On the Precipice is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Excerpts may be used provided that appropriate attribution and reference back to the original source are included.
on the precipice 