Overall I think Vipassana is a good experience for people who want to try a serious meditation practice and explore what it means to grasp at “enlightenment” You can easily find writing from people who didn’t like it, but I want to explain what’s possible in a good-case scenario
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GENEROSITY I’ve become noticeably more generous with my time and resources, but more importantly, I’m becoming more generous in the way that I perceive other people and their intentionshttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1229575817425903621 …
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I think Vipassana facilitates generosity and empathy by depersonalizing your first-person experience It allows you to step out of the proverbial driver’s seat, non-judgmentally observe your flighty subconscious, and appreciate the equally unpredictable subjectivity of others
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These courses are literally built on a spirit of generosity—the courses, which provide 10 days of housing and food, are free of charge The instructors, course managers, and servers are volunteers, and material costs are paid in full by old students who felt compelled to donatehttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1220468969284308994 …
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I have plenty more to say about: - delicious vegetarian Vipassana food - rapture and solitude in nature - embodiment/“breaking through” - meditation vs. psychedelia - skepticism and occultism - non-profit, minimally evangelical organizational sustainability and growth
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But those topics aren’t compact, and they don’t fit cleanly in the context of this thread I’ll maybe post more about this later, and if you’re curious to hear more, DMs are always open :)
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Thanks for sharing! If there's room for requests, next thread on meditation vs psychedelia please!
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Especially if they are aiming at roughly the same goal - i.e. some kind of self enlightenment.
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