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[1] [2] It has been conducting Vipassana meditation courses since October 1993. [3] The courses include 10 days for new students, and 3 days, 7 days and Sunday group sitting for old students. [ 4 ]
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]
The teachings at Spirit Rock focus on the practice of vipassanā meditation as taught in the Theravada tradition, emphasizing mindfulness and lovingkindness. Practices focus on training and quieting the mind, [4] the cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion, the teachings of the Buddha as found in the Pāli Canon, and on incorporating mindfulness and the Dharma into daily life. [15]
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 ...
The meditation course taught at the IMC is the practice of the Eightfold Noble Path, which is divided into the threefold training of higher morality , higher concentration and higher wisdom . For morality, the students will keep at least the five precepts so as to develop purity of physical and verbal conduct.
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
From 1996-2006, IMS offered a correspondence course developed by its founders Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg entitled Insight Meditation which consisted of 12 audio cassettes and a workbook. [7] The course later evolved into Insight Meditation: An In-Depth Correspondence Course, with 24 audio CDs and an 88-page workbook. [8]
'a whole', Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀾𑀢𑁆𑀲𑁆𑀦, romanized: kṛtsna) refers to a class of basic visual objects of meditation used in Theravada Buddhism. The objects are described in the Pali Canon and summarized in the famous Visuddhimagga meditation treatise as kammaṭṭhāna on which to focus the mind whenever attention drifts. [2]