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Guess the car logos! Clothing Brands and Logos. Abbreviation of Computer Terms. Hello Linguists! Take this quiz now! Kevin McNicol [en]. Khasi community [en]. Xueyi xing [en]. Letter A meaning for the name Vipassana It is the first action and therefore the father of any realization.
Dissociated from other letters it is perceived as carrying a solitary and individual symbol. It is at the same time inventive and cerebral by corresponding to the intellectual and idealistic register. Letter S meaning for the name Vipassana Both emotional, affective and oscillating, S equals the register of feelings, being also flexible and mobile.
He is represented by the sun in tarot. Letter N meaning for the name Vipassana Belonging to the brain and oscillating letters. It is listed in the register of the mind and thoughts.
This letter is mobile and hesitant. His concept is fiddling with relativity. This has the affect of making the body more flexible, lighter and less painful. In addition, it removes a great deal of load off the brain and gives the brain extra stamina to deal with the needs of life. The brain feels refreshed and at easy which enables sound judgements and clear thinking.
The technique is based on sound physiology of the body. Saunders, you will find out the processes that occur in the brain which bring about the changes and results in a mind that is free of clutter and is sharp and clear.
Further information to that above. You may ask why the brain does not release the muscle tension all the time. The reason is that the tension or tone builds up gradually over years and is continuous. So the tension becomes latent or unconscious. It only becomes conscious in later years when the tension becomes chronic and the body develops back pain and rigidity. So the brain does not realise the tension because it is not aware of the tension. The Goenka technique sharpens the mind using Anapana which then enables us to notice the tension.
At first we notice the gross tensions and with practice we begin to notice the subtle tension. You may ask why the brain releases the tension. The body is very conservative and does not like to waste energy. So as soon as it notices tension it releases it. However after we stop focusing on the tension the muscles return to their preprogrammed state. Its only after repeated release over many months that we begin to reprogramme the muscles to stay relaxed.
You may ask how the brain knows that the tension is not caused by movement. The brain concentrates on the tension. If it lasts for only a few seconds, say 10 to 20, then it assumes that it is part of the moving process and does not release the tension. However, if the tension continues after that time. This is the technique used by progressive stretching exercises where we tense a muscle, wait 30 seconds and then the brain releases the tension and we can stretch a little more.
We can do this several times and each time the brain releases more tension, thus enabling several stretches. We may ask why the process does not reverse itself. The reason is that the Goenka technique teaches us to notice the tension as soon as a stressor developes. So as soon as we notice that the body is becoming tense, we can go into the body and prevent the tension from building up by concentrating on it.
Thus we can become conscious of the gradual build up of tension in the body which we have not been able to do before we practised the Goenka technique. You remove a little tension from the body and you get a little peace.
You remove a lot of tension from the body and you get a lot of peace. An interesting and well observed and written critique, but there seems not to be a good word to say for the organisation and the method which I think is limited , which is suspect. Quite distasteful and unfortunate. Isckon feeds people which is a wonderful thing but tainted by a horribly skewed, provincial, classist and misogynist world view.
BOTH these organizations have something very self-serving and not-right going on. I paid the the Goenka group the amount it cost them to host me and departed the completed course with some gratitude for the opportunity to practice but extreme reservations about the man.
What are the risks of over enthusiastic students having a psychotic episode following a 10 day Vipassana retreat? Unfortunately I have reason for asking that question. Pingback: Vipassana — my quick take. Thank you! I believe I was brainwashed by an organization and I almost went on the retreat, but realized what was happening before I went. I think there is more there, but since a lot of the teachings in further retreats are secret it is hard to prove. I would find the barriers in myself to pure Dhamma, my brother.
This is ignorance and just a clear sign of unmet needs. Vipassana is a perfect tool. You will be peace when you can accept what it is. I think Goeka Method have some benefit but Goenka and his people sometimes exaggerate it. Sensation to the body, whatever it is, can be a tool to change our attention from, for instance, anger, sadness etc. But that is all. It is like smoking hashish but in a healthier way.
And yes, the source of anger still exist. That sensation will not solve it. It is the wisdom will. I took the course in my country Indonesia and left on the third day due to my inability to sleep at night there. I said to my self that I will come back later but now i think i will not.
The course manager implicitly accused me lying that I can not sleep and they left me alone on the front yard, with rain and very tired body. They put me suddenly in the middle of nowhere. It is far away from the city. That sounds a lot like half the story… No matter, I know that our problems are all manifestations of our own karma. Seek the narrow gate to eternal life… Develop the 10 paramis and everything else will be shown to you. The Universe is inward, not outward.
Find the courage to try again with strong determination… Slay the Ego, Loved Ones. Is it so simple as to reduce the phenomenology of Vipassana meditation to a few physiological states such as hypoxia and stimulation of nerve endings? As a neurological practitioner I find your scientific reasonings lacking explanatory capacity. I have done one 10 day course and my experiences were notably and quite obviously different from functional hypoxic states or paraesthetic states of peripheral nerve function.
Your explanation did little to persuade me, though it would have persuasion on people who do not understand functional metabolic states of neuronal activity. Now I am not purporting to believe that the states achieved in meditation should full under the metaphysical banner. Indeed, there is growing data to bring in more profound complexities of cognitive, meso-limbic and in particular prefrontal cortical activation that makes studying the neurophysiology of meditation so much more interesting.
Check it out. My experience with this group and their retreat was that it was very difficult and challenging and also very rewarding. While the schedule and the requirements are rigorous, I found that I was not confronted or coerced at all during my 10 day course when I slept in or otherwise departed from said schedule to nurture myself with rest or isolation.
Everything the the course entails, including the rules and expectations, are set forth by the management and the website and is plainly accessible BEFORE you attend.
Also, although there is obvious import and emphasis placed on the routine and the beliefs of this program, I always felt myself to also be in a milieu of loving kindness, openness and compassion where I was encouraged to agree or not as I saw fit AND where my well being was important and taken into consideration. Btw, I have done one 10 day course and a one day course in my area, along with just attending a weekend summit for old students where we were had the history and the management practices of dhamma.
Very impressive, and I am fairly bright, intuitive and educated, and very aware of both implicit and explicit communication, and I have NEVER heard or witnessed anyone in the organization, from Goenka on down, express ANY contempt or criticism of any other religion, sect, philosophy, etc. To claim otherwise is, in my opinion, taking it out of context. Also, note that many of the posts on here and elsewhere on the web which agree with or thank the naysayers are people who have never attended a course.
Enough said. Saunders for free. You can access it at Kundoc. I have written a letter to my children who are now adults. I would like to share it with you in case it can help people with their practice.
Here it is. My Life Philosophy. I have written this note to explain my life philosophy so that you can better understand me and my actions. It may appear radical and selfish. It has taken me many years to develop these ideas and if it can help to improve me, I can then help others with this knowledge and have achieved my objectives. My mindset is built on the word LIFE. The L stands for letting go. The I stands for identify.
The F stands for focus. The E stands for essential. I concentrate on four elements. With negative emotions like greed, hate and all their derivatives like anger, jealousy, frustration, rage, boredom etc. Greed is not evil except that it is addictive and can lead to mental turmoil.
Thoughts have their own momentum and are difficult to bring to an end, especially negative thoughts that are associated with the ego. When I meditate, I have to concentrate on a single item like the breath or the movement of the stomach when breathing. Identifying with the world involves me with the outside world. Identifying also means getting involved, interacting and associating. I get carried away in proliferation of thought, word and deed which can sometimes lead to problems.
I try to control and sort out the world, other people, situations. I thrive on stimulation and get dragged into the worlds problems causing mental proliferation and mental unbalance.
The world is stressful, unreliable, constantly changeable and causes me suffering. I thus try and identify and get involved with the world as little as possible. Its like knowing someone who constantly gets you in trouble; so you avoid them. If you eat food that makes you ill, then you avoid it. I thus try and spend more time focusing on the inside world like the four elements of body, feeling, emotions and thoughts.
Using meditation. I teach myself how to focus. I then focus on the four elements. This helps me to reduce tension in the body and mind, prevent the unpleasant feeling from developing into problems in life with friends, relations, partner or the outside world.
By concentrating on my emotions, again I prevent them from developing into serious situations that cause problems for me or others. For example, an unpleasant feeling can develop into anger. Re: Pronouncing "v" Post by mikenz66 » Tue Mar 01, pm Thai simply doesn't have a "v" sound, just as English doesn't have a number of sounds found in languages such as Thai, the various Chinese dialects, and even European languages such as Dutch e. Van Go gh. Therefore, you don't find Thai pronouncing it as "v", just as you don't find many English speakers pronouncing Van Gogh correctly it makes me feel like I'm making a rude noise!
In my opinion, the "right" pronunciation is the pronunciation of the group one is chanting with.
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