Alrighty folks. You have all been waiting so patiently for it, and now I am finally going to give you the goods. It may take a few blogs to fully explain my experience, but I will do my best to unfold it as it happened. So here it goes.
Before I begin though, I first want to give a special shout out to my friend Sean. If it weren’t for him and our chance meeting a few months ago, a truly a fantastic conversation with a near perfect stranger, I would never have gotten the gifts I now have from these past two weeks that I was away. Then again, I don’t really believe in accidents or chance either. I think when we are ready, we draw people or things to us and then magic starts to happen. Either way, I feel a deep gratitude within for the seed that was planted. So Sean, if you are reading this, thank you for leading me to the path of liberation.
Gosh, where do I even start? Perhaps at the beginning, or perhaps before I share my experiences I should first tell you what Vipassana IS and what it IS NOT so that you can have a clearer idea of what it was that I actually attended. It was far more than just the 10 days of no talking, no reading, no writing, and no communicating in any form as I had previously thought. That was the easy part. Bear with me though as I paraphrase my blue information pamphlet I received when I arrived - which by the way, was the ONLY reading material I had there, except for the labels and tags on bath mats and such. Yes, I actually read those…I was desperate. LOL
Vipassana happens to be one of India’s most ancient meditation techniques, and it literally means “to see things as they really are”. It is a purification process of the mind that leads to total liberation; a way to focus and set free the monkey mind that causes us so much misery when repeatedly thinking about our past or worrying about our future.
How? By the simple observation of our natural breath and body sensations. Sounds easy right? Hardly. Stick around and I will share with you the process I went through. Well worth the end result, but not exactly a walk in the park.
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