Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Inmates who completed the ten-day course were less violent and had a lower recidivism rate than other inmates. This project was documented in the documentary film, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana. [55] Vipassana prison courses are routinely offered at the Donaldson Prison Facility in Alabama through the Vipassana Prison Trust.
The Vipassana Meditation Centres that Goenka helped to establish throughout the world offer 10-day courses that provide a thorough and guided introduction to the practice of Vipassana meditation. There are no charges for either the course or for the lodging and boarding during the course.
It argues that the development of strong samatha can be disadvantageous, [39] a stance for which the Vipassana Movement has been criticised, especially in Sri Lanka. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] The "New Burmese Method" was developed by U Nārada (1868–1955), and popularised by Mahasi Sayadaw (1904–1982) and Nyanaponika Thera (1901–1994).
An inaugural one-day meditation course was held at the pagoda on 21 December 2008, with Goenka in attendance as the teacher. Ten-day vipassana meditation courses are held free of charge at the Dhamma Pattana meditation center that is part of the Global Vipassana Pagoda complex. [8]
Samatha and vipassana by Sayadaw U Uttamasara; Reaching Nibbana through insight a guide by Ven. K. Nyanananda; The Forty Meditation Objects: Who Should Use Which? by Karen Andrews; Dharmathai Kammathana Blog Chinawangso Bhikkhu "Colour-Kasiṇa Meditation," by Thitapu Bhikkhu, includes instructions for use and construction of the kasiṇa ...
The following year, she took an independent study trip to India, and in January 1971 attended her first intensive meditation course at Bodh Gaya. In the next several years, she engaged in intensive study with various Buddhist teachers including S.N. Goenka. [8] After returning to US in 1974, she began teaching vipassana (insight) meditation. [9]
After his own refresher course with S. N. Goenka in Dalhousie, India, in the mid-1970s, Mr Coleman returned to Europe and at the students’ urging and with S. N. Goenka’s encouragement, Mr Coleman began to conduct 10-day courses in earnest. He was associated with the International Meditation Centre in the UK for a few years.
Link to free online class on Satipaṭṭhāna given by Sayadaw U Silananda "Agendas of Mindfulness," by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, a discourse on Satipaṭṭhāna "Satipatthana Vipassana" or "Insight through Mindfulness," by Mahasi Sayadaw; Global Online Satipatthana Recitation; Saddhamma Foundation Information about practicing Satipatthana meditation.