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A ten-day retreat involved officials and inmates alike was then tried in India's largest prison Tihar Jail near New Delhi. Vipassana is being taught in Jail 4 of Tihar Prisons to inmates in two ten day courses every month around the year since 1994 onwards. This program was said to have dramatically changed the behavior of inmates and jailers ...
Dhamma Joti is one of the first Vipassana meditation centres in Myanmar, founded by S.N Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Kin in accordance with the teaching of Ledi Sayadaw. The centre is situated on an area about 12 acres contributed by the venerable Bhaddanta Sobhita of Wingabar Yele Monastery.
The Abhidharma-kosa of Vasubandhu (4th or 5th century CE) lists the knowledges attained on the path of liberation according to the Sarvastivadin abhidharma: [10] Saṃvṛti-jñāna (世俗智): worldly, conventional knowledge ('bears on all') Dharma-jñāna (法智): a knowledge of dharmas ("has for its object, the suffering etc. of Kamadhatu")
The Tibetan term for samatha is ཞི་གནས་ (shyiné; Wylie: zhi-gnas). [10] The semantic field of Sanskrit shama and Tibetan shi is "pacification", "the slowing or cooling down", "rest." [10] The semantic field of Tibetan né is "to abide or remain" and this is cognate or equivalent with the final syllable of the Sanskrit, thā. [11]
Kasina meditation is one of the most common types of samatha-vipassana, intended to settle the mind of the practitioner and create a foundation for further practices of meditation. The Visuddhimagga concerns kasina meditation. [3]
The following is the schedule for an average day at Plum Village (Làng Mai): 5:00 am: Rise; 6:00 am: Sitting and walking meditation; 7:00 am: Breakfast; 9:00 am: Dharma Talk / Class / Presentation / Mindful work period; 11:30 am: Walking meditation; 12:30 pm: Lunch; 1:30 pm: Rest; 3:00 pm: Service (working) meditation; 6:00 pm: Optional dinner
The organisation estimates that as many as 10,000 prisoners, as well as many members of the police and military, have attended the 10-day courses. Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 documentary about the introduction of S. N. Goenka's 10-day Vipassana classes at Tihar Jail in 1993 by then Inspector General of Prisons in New Delhi, Kiran Bedi ...
The text is addressed to a "Yogāvacara", referring to any practitioner of Buddhist meditation and hence it is a practical meditation manual. [2]The text covers Buddhist meditation material such as the ten recollections (), the brahmaviharas, the five kinds of piti (joy), the four formless realms (arūpajhāna), the nimittas, and 10 vipassanā-ñāṇas. [3]