Through regular practice of Vipassana, one starts benefiting on various fronts. Reduced stress, better concentration and steadiness, greater ability to take decisions and give up habits such as smoking and drinking, improvement in health, etc are commonly experienced. Health improves because it is a reflection of the mind, and as the mind becomes purer, wonderful results have been seen in a large number of cases.
At a philosophical level, the whole karmic cycle starts becoming clearer in terms of one’s life experiences. One moment of experience of the fire will teach far more than a million year discourse on it. Thus, Vipassana seeks to bring about a change from within by operating at the root of the mind. Vipassana is taught absolutely free (too valuable to be priced) in 55 languages at more than 150 centres in India and 90 other countries of the world. The tradition is maintained by the donations.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
‘You have to work out your own salvation’
SN Goenka is the leading teacher of vipassana, a popular Buddhist meditation technique. He was born in Burma to Indian parents and raised as a Hindu. He spoke to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV’s Walk the Talk on how Buddhism changed him and how he brought vipassana back to the country of its origin
How is vipassana different from other forms of meditation?
Vipassana is observation of truth. Not the apparent truth. Not your face or your arms. You feel what is happening inside you. The mind becomes very sharp in three days. In those three days, no words are used. Nobody asks you to chant Buddha’s name. Just observe the truth, the breath coming in and out of you. Experience the truth as is the law of nature. From the fourth day, you are asked to observe the whole body, to get different sensations, pleasant sometimes, but mostly unpleasant. A lot of negativity amd impurities well up in their minds. Then they realise what they are doing. They realise they are harming themselves and they start changing. This is how the change comes, with their own experience.
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