Each subsequent Vipassana gets easier, which is proof that the pain is connected to energy within the body. That energy is part of traumas, habits, things you're holding on to and connections to negative experiences and people. The key to the technique is constantly letting go and surrendering while watching with equanimity. Over time the heavy pains are released and subtler more sublime energy flows appear and you begin to feel lighter and freer.
@@brushstroke3733 I have done about 20 Vipassana's now. Each one easier than the last. Now I enjoy the whole 10 days without the struggle that I had in the beginning. Keep it up...
@@brianlittrell797 It is, however it is important to do it the way Goenka teaches, starting off with Anapana breathing meditation and slowly moving through the steps to Vipassana. I wouldn't recommend jumping straight into Vipassana.
@@moopius Why not? A lot of people do body scan meditation with very significant benefits. Why is it not recommended to start doing that from the start?
Thank you for sharing! 80 thousand thoughts per day and most are unconcious The easy part of meditation is to take a breath and listen to the world around you/be present, the difficult part is taking the next breath, and so on
As a vipasssana, old student who has been practicing for 25 years, sitting 10-day and long courses, serving on courses and as a member of the management team and on a center trust its great to hear your discussion about your course experiences. Some of us old students get together on Sunday mornings at 10am on UA-cam on a program called "The Servers Table". It's a podcast format but the concept is that we are continuing the conversations that happen every day in the servers dinning rooms all over the world. I can't imagine a more diverse and interesting group of people than the members of the vipassana community. Each center is a stand-alone trust run and funded by old students who volunteer their time and money to start and run these centers world-wide. Geonka taught his first course in India in 1969 and now there are two hundred centers. It is he purest form of democracy that I have ever encountered and it continues to grow.
That's exactly my vippassana experience Right mind Right thought right speech right concentration Sheel(ethics) sammadhi (purity of soul) pragya (wisdom)
Dude this is the best most complete explanation I ever heard...I was always curious about what vapasana was but everyone who explained it left me confused until now.
This is amazingly described. My spiritual journey/kundalini awakening has definitely forced me to get a taste of what you are describing but hearing you guys talk about this in such great detail intrigues me to give the whole thing a go to get even deeper. Would love to find one near me if possible.
33:21 seems to be similar to the experience of a hard working life in the mountains, on your own, and then visiting a city, seein all that crazy stuff which has nothing to do with life in nature
You don't see reality. What you see is an internal representation produced by your brain from sensory input. What you experience isn't reality, it's a representation of the world produced by your mind.
Siddharth Gautam was not unhappy but happiest man untill one day he saw the world outside his palace. A sage had predicted that the king's son would become a big spiritual yogi and leave his familyand all belongings one day. Fearing, since his birth the king ensured that Siddharth doesnt get chance to see/feel any misery pain sadness...he went as far as putting sexy girls around and all sorts of pleasure to him. He was concealed from the process of aging and how old age comes with what kind of pains...Just one day when by mistake his driver took hijm outside the castle on Siddhartha persuasion. There for the first time he saw reality of life and was broken to the core..that day he just took a extreme concept that "Life is Dukka (Sorrow)"...and this runs in the teaching of buddhism as the main truth.
@@Austination316 well the Enlightenment ofc! The 'end of Suffering'. All Noble Truths, not just the first one. The 4 Noble Truths should be seen as one whole, one truth, imo.
Top-tier content! Thank you for sharing :) I'm doing a variation of this meditation for years now, coupled with "Letting Go" as teached by David Hawkins, works wonders!
Step above it. Except everything as you deem it is. You change what is, by being indifferent to a new reality, not the one you observe. You must not wish it is different, but see it as being different already. Not easy, but doable with practice.
Thanks guys u guys are awesome 💯 I've been meditating for years but you guys put things in a northern style Northern nutshell In the common vernacular that makes it easy to understand you guys , so you guys are like a power blade Sharpener, mad love thanks guys Uma subscribe
Thanks so much for the kind words and sub! We try to bring wisdom down to earth, so happy to hear that you feel like we’re doing our job! Looking forward to serving you with more content in the future!
As buddhist since birth, i appreciate that you experimented this and encouraging ppl to try it out. Being a buddhist my self i haven’t tried these, mainly coz i think since our religion / the buddhist philosophy we follow doesnt have any rules, when we get distracted with our everyday things we forget that this the way to end the cycle of suffering, end the cycle of rebirth. Just to add a little bit more to what you were saying about Lord Buddha as prince siddhartha, he left his palace in search of an answer to end sufferings. He met many yogis along the way (hinduism and other yogi stuff were there before buddhism). He followed different methods that other yogis used to find the truth but he couldn’t, he went in extreme paths to meditate by without eating etc. but at the end he realized that middle path is the best way to do it. Thats when he reached this BO tree (this is considered as a sacred tree in Sri Lanka and can be seen in buddhist temples) sat under it and determined that he would keep meditating and that he would not get up until he reaches enlightenment. Thats how he reached enlightenment i think at the age of 36, and he knew he would not have a rebirth, he didnt have any desires/ attachments to anything and so much more. By the way, he is the 28th Lord Buddha that has been born in this world. Which means that anybody could be a buddha eventhough it could require a great determination that has to be there in our mind for millions of years that we would be born, and then die and be reborn again. Following Vipassana meditation will help normal ppl like us to atleast reach other levels which could give different results based on the level we reached, if enlightenment wasn’t attainable. All Lord Buddhas that has been there before Gauthama Buddha, has taught the same path, but their stories, birth places etc could be different. And the name of the next buddha will be “Maithree Buddha”. I think hes supposed to be born after the end of this Kali Yug (he should have been determined to be a buddha in all his past lives and being born to be a buddha will be his last life).
Hi guys, I have been practicing Vipassana on and off for the last 2 years, 30 minutes a day. I wonder how you deal with back pain? I would also like to know if there is a website where you can find the nearest Vipassana center. That's all, I just want to congratulate you for the video, excellent explanation and very inspiring!
What's up Sebastian! Appreciate the kind words and you taking the time to watch / listen :) Good stuff with the meditation practice! It's funny that you mention back pain, we're about to interview a back pain prevention specialist on the podcast in just a few weeks, so stay tuned for that for sure. But for a more immediate solution, one thing that really helped us was sitting on a meditation cushion called a Zafu. You can find them online on Amazon. It's just a circular cushion that makes it a little easier to sit for longer periods of time. In terms of where you can find the nearest Vipassana center, you can use their website: www.dhamma.org/en/locations/directory LMK if you have any more questions! And thanks for the sub!
You are just not sitting correctly straight erect like a cobra who suspends his entire body on his lower tail. you need to forget you have body. That comes after several minutes of painful sitting and when breath becomes noticeable. tummy breathing you start with which goes away gradually and gets focused just on the point of meditation. Also avoid lotus position, if it is painful, try siddhasana instead locking your pelvic region. Lotus position doesnt give firmness and erect suspension as siddhasana, to many. From hath yoga, otherwise, choose the posture which suits you best and same time ensures erect cobra like suspended body.
Gautama was a prince whom his father had grown him up with A luxurious life so that he couldnt taste suffering but when he saw people suffering and old age an death that what spark his spiritual journey
Guuuuys. X3 “tell me a funny story” “yeah this lady started freaking tf out” I was a little mad at first but I took a second… if I literally had NO STIMULATION for like even two or three full days, doing that kinda intense meditation… yeah… there is something funny about that. I don’t think I’d be able to resist feeling some small sense of superiority over the people who leave if I managed to stay, too. So I feel ya, man. I AM SO IMPRESSED with y’all for going through with it. I don’t think there’s anything a person can do that is more impressive…
Our pleasure Sarah! They only served vegan food where we went, but I remember people bringing their own food if they had dietary restrictions. I do know that each center is very different when it comes to strictness on the rules, so to get a concrete answer I’d reach out directly to the center you’re thinking of attending 😊
Which one did you go to, the one in California? Also …do you have to have the vaccine? Because i was going go after the virus but that was required, i was going to go to the one in Iowa, it was closed down, thank you for sharing your experience 🙏
Hey Terry! We’re from Brooklyn NY so the closest one was in Delaware. I don’t believe you need to be vaccinated to go anymore. Highly recommend you giving it a shot! And it’s our pleasure, thanks for watching 🙏
Maybe modern drugs also could give that experience. Buddha also tried all sorts of meditations and he noticed that all meditations were not giving permanent peace, once meditation is over he became back to where he was. Then some random trick made him enlightened. it was like a glitch in the matrix. Glitch has fixed now so have to seek new methods.
It always makes me wonder why Siddartha initially considered that sitting under a tree would give him the answers to the ‘existence of life etc’. Curious hey?
Maybe he was just being practical. Maybe he figured he'd be there for a while and so chose a shady spot rather than a spot exposed to sunlight. Maybe he even leaned against the tree to rest. Maybe it gave him a place to seek refuge from tigers, although that's probably not right since tigers can climb trees.
@ maybe. Maybe it’s all made up. Maybe he was as clueless as the rest of us. Maybe enlightenment is a myth. Maybe we are really are simply biological machines. Maybe…
We went to the one in Delaware. We’ve heard of super cool ones throughout the US and rest of the world, though. The Delaware one is pretty basic but gets the job done.
This dosent sound at all to normal Vipassana meditation retreats... I`ve been to many and usually it is few hours of sitting meditation but then it is also walking meditation, karma meditation and upon that monks come to talk to you.. Where was this?
We like Eckhart tolle’s theory of enlightenment: “the word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.” In order words, enlightenment is not a destination you finally reach, but a moment to moment experience. We believe that whenever you’re conscious of your thoughts, you are experiencing “enlightenment” in that moment.
This is not true. The word meditation is misleading because there is nothing to meditate upon. To realise the True self which you already are requires total surrender to all thought. As Ramana Maharashi said Just Be.
it’s hilarious how you find Buddha’s journey to enlightenment so amusing when sitting through even three minimal days of Vipassana seems like a Herculean task for you. The level of dedication Gautama displayed it is to be revered upon .. Funny how you even feel qualified to talk about him, let alone make fun of him. (And no, I’m not a follower of Buddha or any religion, but I do find your attitude quite funny-not in a humorous way, though.) And its funny how you find your teacher’s accent funny. Ever stopped to think how your own accent might sound downright hilarious to others? Your mouth is simply trained to pronounce words in a certain way, and yet you’ve somehow convinced yourself that your way is the correct way. That, my friend, is genuinely funny to me. Maybe it’s time to sign up for a few more Vipassana sessions-not just to survive them but to gain a little clarity. Who knows, you might actually understand what you’re saying one day! :) (Oh, this one’s for the guy in the black T-shirt-whatever your name is. The other guy, at least, seems to show a bit more gratitude for the free wealth of knowledge you wanted that Goranka so generously shared.)
I wasn't trying to be lovely (the adjective, not my name :) ), and yes, I am judging him-judging his mockery and ungrateful attitude, no doubt. Just like he finds things funny about Buddha or his vipasanna teachers accent, I find it funny how some people beg to learn for free from spiritual masters who’ve devoted years of dedication and commitment to gain that knowledge and share it generously, only to be mocked-no matter the degree. If you can dish out judgment, be ready to take it too.:) And just to clarify, my earlier comment was directed solely at the owner of this video-the guy in the black T-shirt-and not as an invitation for conversation. He’s a grown man with a mind of his own-he can take it as an instigator to improve his clarity or dismiss it entirely. Either way, it makes no difference to me. :)
Vipassana practices and enlightenment, is what all religions are pointing too but unfortunately lost there practices and also is full of dogma. Vipassana, Zen practices is in all religions if you look deeply and they are pointing to the same thing.
Guys , your eyes look different, they have calmness in them . Amazing what meditation does to you
Thanks guys, this motivated me to start meditating
Each subsequent Vipassana gets easier, which is proof that the pain is connected to energy within the body. That energy is part of traumas, habits, things you're holding on to and connections to negative experiences and people. The key to the technique is constantly letting go and surrendering while watching with equanimity. Over time the heavy pains are released and subtler more sublime energy flows appear and you begin to feel lighter and freer.
Thanks for this encouraging message!
@@brushstroke3733 I have done about 20 Vipassana's now. Each one easier than the last. Now I enjoy the whole 10 days without the struggle that I had in the beginning. Keep it up...
@@moopius Is Vipassana similar to body scan meditation?
@@brianlittrell797 It is, however it is important to do it the way Goenka teaches, starting off with Anapana breathing meditation and slowly moving through the steps to Vipassana. I wouldn't recommend jumping straight into Vipassana.
@@moopius Why not? A lot of people do body scan meditation with very significant benefits. Why is it not recommended to start doing that from the start?
Thank you for sharing! 80 thousand thoughts per day and most are unconcious The easy part of meditation is to take a breath and listen to the world around you/be present, the difficult part is taking the next breath, and so on
Well done guys!! This is true strength.
What a delightful chat, gentlemen!
As a vipasssana, old student who has been practicing for 25 years, sitting 10-day and long courses, serving on courses and as a member of the management team and on a center trust its great to hear your discussion about your course experiences. Some of us old students get together on Sunday mornings at 10am on UA-cam on a program called "The Servers Table". It's a podcast format but the concept is that we are continuing the conversations that happen every day in the servers dinning rooms all over the world. I can't imagine a more diverse and interesting group of people than the members of the vipassana community. Each center is a stand-alone trust run and funded by old students who volunteer their time and money to start and run these centers world-wide. Geonka taught his first course in India in 1969 and now there are two hundred centers. It is he purest form of democracy that I have ever encountered and it continues to grow.
I am an old student (13 years) and would love to join you.
That's exactly my vippassana experience
Right mind Right thought right speech right concentration
Sheel(ethics) sammadhi (purity of soul) pragya (wisdom)
Reminds me of that quote from the movie Bohemian Rhapsody: "Good thoughts. Good words. Good deeds."
Sila, samadhi, panna
It is the most healthiest thing! It clean your thought! Just doing nothing!
These 40 minutes taught me for about spirituality than any book ❤
Dude this is the best most complete explanation I ever heard...I was always curious about what vapasana was but everyone who explained it left me confused until now.
Haha happy we could be of service 🫡 highly recommend the experience.
Congratulations! Good job guys, excelent experience, in depth explanation. Keep the good job.
Thanks so much, Christian! Really appreciate the kind words and support 🙏
Wow.! What a near perfect explanation of enlightenment through mindfulness meditation.
Thanks, Larry! 🙏
This is amazingly described. My spiritual journey/kundalini awakening has definitely forced me to get a taste of what you are describing but hearing you guys talk about this in such great detail intrigues me to give the whole thing a go to get even deeper. Would love to find one near me if possible.
That was really interesting. Well done.
Great job boys, it’s amazing to hear about this as it is.
33:21 seems to be similar to the experience of a hard working life in the mountains, on your own, and then visiting a city, seein all that crazy stuff which has nothing to do with life in nature
Really love this type of conversations
This sounds terrifyingly awesome
It’s nice to see the humility in this podcast.
I can see you guys doing plant and earth medicine experience reports and darkness retreats🕳️🐇
Day 1: “I realized I was clinically insane” 😂 Great video about how wild the mind is if we don’t tame it
😂 lol so true man. Stillness is 🔑
Thanks so much for sharing your experience.
Our pleasure, Geoff! Happy you enjoyed it
i’ve heard many don’t even make it thru the whole vipassana lol ..
wholeness & balanced vibrations to you, yours & ours brothers
Amazing. Thanks a lot
Did it in Bodhgaya India a few years ago. Best thing i ever did, highly recommended!
Sending love from Edmonton Alberta Canada
Sending love right back from Brooklyn, NY!
Hey, fellow Edmontonian! Are you also a meditator?
Thanks for sharing this!
It was our pleasure! So happy you enjoyed it 😊
I’ve done this. Quality.
👏👏
May all beings be happy! ☸️
You will be more focus after the vipassana course and so many benefits you will get.
May all beings be happy! 😊🌎
Closing eyes shows reality?
Never knew that
You don't see reality. What you see is an internal representation produced by your brain from sensory input. What you experience isn't reality, it's a representation of the world produced by your mind.
Siddharth Gautam was not unhappy but happiest man untill one day he saw the world outside his palace. A sage had predicted that the king's son would become a big spiritual yogi and leave his familyand all belongings one day. Fearing, since his birth the king ensured that Siddharth doesnt get chance to see/feel any misery pain sadness...he went as far as putting sexy girls around and all sorts of pleasure to him. He was concealed from the process of aging and how old age comes with what kind of pains...Just one day when by mistake his driver took hijm outside the castle on Siddhartha persuasion. There for the first time he saw reality of life and was broken to the core..that day he just took a extreme concept that "Life is Dukka (Sorrow)"...and this runs in the teaching of buddhism as the main truth.
Wow. I did a terrible job telling that story… Thank you so much for clearing that up and sharing this! What a powerful story
Yeah that was the worst explanation ever lol
You left out the most important part! :o
@@JorisWeimawhich?
@@Austination316 well the Enlightenment ofc! The 'end of Suffering'. All Noble Truths, not just the first one. The 4 Noble Truths should be seen as one whole, one truth, imo.
Top-tier content! Thank you for sharing :) I'm doing a variation of this meditation for years now, coupled with "Letting Go" as teached by David Hawkins, works wonders!
Thank you so much! So happy you enjoyed it 😊 we haven’t heard of Letting Go until now - will look into it. Thanks for the rec!
Doing this since 20years...u guys take a short driver lesson...lol...nice❤
The truly Enlightened never claim that they are Enlightened. They never advertise or yoller.
Very true!
That's because no one is enlightened. Enlightenment is seeing that the person doesn't really exist, so who would be enlightened?
Step above it. Except everything as you deem it is. You change what is, by being indifferent to a new reality, not the one you observe. You must not wish it is different, but see it as being different already. Not easy, but doable with practice.
Thanks guys u guys are awesome 💯
I've been meditating for years but you guys put things in a northern style Northern nutshell In the common vernacular that makes it easy to understand you guys , so you guys are like a power blade Sharpener, mad love thanks guys Uma subscribe
Thanks so much for the kind words and sub! We try to bring wisdom down to earth, so happy to hear that you feel like we’re doing our job! Looking forward to serving you with more content in the future!
Good, now keep meditating every day. Its on you.
💯 percent. Consistency is key
As buddhist since birth, i appreciate that you experimented this and encouraging ppl to try it out. Being a buddhist my self i haven’t tried these, mainly coz i think since our religion / the buddhist philosophy we follow doesnt have any rules, when we get distracted with our everyday things we forget that this the way to end the cycle of suffering, end the cycle of rebirth.
Just to add a little bit more to what you were saying about Lord Buddha as prince siddhartha, he left his palace in search of an answer to end sufferings. He met many yogis along the way (hinduism and other yogi stuff were there before buddhism). He followed different methods that other yogis used to find the truth but he couldn’t, he went in extreme paths to meditate by without eating etc. but at the end he realized that middle path is the best way to do it. Thats when he reached this BO tree (this is considered as a sacred tree in Sri Lanka and can be seen in buddhist temples) sat under it and determined that he would keep meditating and that he would not get up until he reaches enlightenment. Thats how he reached enlightenment i think at the age of 36, and he knew he would not have a rebirth, he didnt have any desires/ attachments to anything and so much more.
By the way, he is the 28th Lord Buddha that has been born in this world. Which means that anybody could be a buddha eventhough it could require a great determination that has to be there in our mind for millions of years that we would be born, and then die and be reborn again. Following Vipassana meditation will help normal ppl like us to atleast reach other levels which could give different results based on the level we reached, if enlightenment wasn’t attainable.
All Lord Buddhas that has been there before Gauthama Buddha, has taught the same path, but their stories, birth places etc could be different. And the name of the next buddha will be “Maithree Buddha”. I think hes supposed to be born after the end of this Kali Yug (he should have been determined to be a buddha in all his past lives and being born to be a buddha will be his last life).
I'm laughing so hard in the intro - that's awesome.
Hi guys, I have been practicing Vipassana on and off for the last 2 years, 30 minutes a day. I wonder how you deal with back pain? I would also like to know if there is a website where you can find the nearest Vipassana center. That's all, I just want to congratulate you for the video, excellent explanation and very inspiring!
What's up Sebastian! Appreciate the kind words and you taking the time to watch / listen :) Good stuff with the meditation practice!
It's funny that you mention back pain, we're about to interview a back pain prevention specialist on the podcast in just a few weeks, so stay tuned for that for sure. But for a more immediate solution, one thing that really helped us was sitting on a meditation cushion called a Zafu. You can find them online on Amazon. It's just a circular cushion that makes it a little easier to sit for longer periods of time.
In terms of where you can find the nearest Vipassana center, you can use their website: www.dhamma.org/en/locations/directory
LMK if you have any more questions! And thanks for the sub!
You are just not sitting correctly straight erect like a cobra who suspends his entire body on his lower tail. you need to forget you have body. That comes after several minutes of painful sitting and when breath becomes noticeable. tummy breathing you start with which goes away gradually and gets focused just on the point of meditation. Also avoid lotus position, if it is painful, try siddhasana instead locking your pelvic region. Lotus position doesnt give firmness and erect suspension as siddhasana, to many. From hath yoga, otherwise, choose the posture which suits you best and same time ensures erect cobra like suspended body.
nicely explained
Thank you! Happy you thought so
even if you start sitting still one day a week without any distraction this will have a long-term changing effect on your life
Gautama was a prince whom his father had grown him up with A luxurious life so that he couldnt taste suffering but when he saw people suffering and old age an death that what spark his spiritual journey
Guuuuys. X3 “tell me a funny story” “yeah this lady started freaking tf out”
I was a little mad at first but I took a second… if I literally had NO STIMULATION for like even two or three full days, doing that kinda intense meditation… yeah… there is something funny about that. I don’t think I’d be able to resist feeling some small sense of superiority over the people who leave if I managed to stay, too. So I feel ya, man.
I AM SO IMPRESSED with y’all for going through with it. I don’t think there’s anything a person can do that is more impressive…
Thanks for sharing! I was wondering about food. I've only eaten meat for the past 7 years. Would they cater to a carnivore?
Our pleasure Sarah! They only served vegan food where we went, but I remember people bringing their own food if they had dietary restrictions. I do know that each center is very different when it comes to strictness on the rules, so to get a concrete answer I’d reach out directly to the center you’re thinking of attending 😊
As I recall, Gautam Siddhart went to lots of gurus & learnt lot of things before he sat under a tree.
Do they have these meditation retreats in Canada?
Siddharyha was not a guy from a wealthy family, he was a prince.
Which one did you go to, the one in California? Also …do you have to have the vaccine? Because i was going go after the virus but that was required, i was going to go to the one in Iowa, it was closed down, thank you for sharing your experience 🙏
Hey Terry! We’re from Brooklyn NY so the closest one was in Delaware. I don’t believe you need to be vaccinated to go anymore. Highly recommend you giving it a shot! And it’s our pleasure, thanks for watching 🙏
@@TheFioBros"Giving it a shot" - nice pun there!
Maybe modern drugs also could give that experience. Buddha also tried all sorts of meditations and he noticed that all meditations were not giving permanent peace, once meditation is over he became back to where he was. Then some random trick made him enlightened. it was like a glitch in the matrix. Glitch has fixed now so have to seek new methods.
1:48 Gautama was born about 2,500 years ago. 500 years before the birth of Jesus.
It always makes me wonder why Siddartha initially considered that sitting under a tree would give him the answers to the ‘existence of life etc’. Curious hey?
Maybe he was just being practical. Maybe he figured he'd be there for a while and so chose a shady spot rather than a spot exposed to sunlight. Maybe he even leaned against the tree to rest. Maybe it gave him a place to seek refuge from tigers, although that's probably not right since tigers can climb trees.
@ maybe. Maybe it’s all made up. Maybe he was as clueless as the rest of us. Maybe enlightenment is a myth. Maybe we are really are simply biological machines. Maybe…
@@brushstroke3733 I think you got it right.
which city did you go to?
We went to the one in Delaware. We’ve heard of super cool ones throughout the US and rest of the world, though. The Delaware one is pretty basic but gets the job done.
Our sanatani saints, yogis do straight for days... Even months and didn't eat food or water...
There’s levels to it for sure
It's like you even struggling to climb a few stairs than you suddenly decide to climb to Mount Everest. That's not how it works 😅
Live in Real world ❤ do not carry others people demon .
Yes. 😊
Mind can't meditate. Planning to meditate evade the goal of meditation.
This dosent sound at all to normal Vipassana meditation retreats... I`ve been to many and usually it is few hours of sitting meditation but then it is also walking meditation, karma meditation and upon that monks come to talk to you.. Where was this?
1:05 How to pronounce “Goenka”: ua-cam.com/video/XKG0Va6HyIM/v-deo.htmlsi=TgNoxvSlCYz2TYzd
Somebody lied to you about Buddha story
So did you reach enlightenment or what?
We like Eckhart tolle’s theory of enlightenment: “the word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.” In order words, enlightenment is not a destination you finally reach, but a moment to moment experience. We believe that whenever you’re conscious of your thoughts, you are experiencing “enlightenment” in that moment.
@@TheFioBrosenlightenment has different stages. And you know once you reach them
For your benefit, his name is pronounced GOYn-ka, not GOn-ka. 😇
I wonder if Hitler's mustache inadvertantly resulted in a quasi ana pana meditation that shapened his focus. 😮
😂😂😂
The thumbnail is giving self-immolation protest vibes
you looks like twins
its ten 10hr sittings, not 100 straight hours. you know that, right?!
Meditation is intended to be done without food and water breaks. 10 hours a day, isn’t 100 hrs of straight meditation. 🙏
Nop
This is not true. The word meditation is misleading because there is nothing to meditate upon. To realise the True self which you already are requires total surrender to all thought.
As Ramana Maharashi said Just Be.
@ says the man who isn’t surrendering to all thoughts….. 🤔
it’s hilarious how you find Buddha’s journey to enlightenment so amusing when sitting through even three minimal days of Vipassana seems like a Herculean task for you. The level of dedication Gautama displayed it is to be revered upon .. Funny how you even feel qualified to talk about him, let alone make fun of him. (And no, I’m not a follower of Buddha or any religion, but I do find your attitude quite funny-not in a humorous way, though.)
And its funny how you find your teacher’s accent funny. Ever stopped to think how your own accent might sound downright hilarious to others? Your mouth is simply trained to pronounce words in a certain way, and yet you’ve somehow convinced yourself that your way is the correct way. That, my friend, is genuinely funny to me.
Maybe it’s time to sign up for a few more Vipassana sessions-not just to survive them but to gain a little clarity. Who knows, you might actually understand what you’re saying one day! :) (Oh, this one’s for the guy in the black T-shirt-whatever your name is. The other guy, at least, seems to show a bit more gratitude for the free wealth of knowledge you wanted that Goranka so generously shared.)
Not so lovely at all.
I sense a certain amount of Judgement from you.
I wasn't trying to be lovely (the adjective, not my name :) ), and yes, I am judging him-judging his mockery and ungrateful attitude, no doubt. Just like he finds things funny about Buddha or his vipasanna teachers accent, I find it funny how some people beg to learn for free from spiritual masters who’ve devoted years of dedication and commitment to gain that knowledge and share it generously, only to be mocked-no matter the degree. If you can dish out judgment, be ready to take it too.:)
And just to clarify, my earlier comment was directed solely at the owner of this video-the guy in the black T-shirt-and not as an invitation for conversation. He’s a grown man with a mind of his own-he can take it as an instigator to improve his clarity or dismiss it entirely. Either way, it makes no difference to me. :)
Let me clear this ... What u doing was not medication
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pre sure thinking causes aging lol
Vipassana practices and enlightenment, is what all religions are pointing too but unfortunately lost there practices and also is full of dogma. Vipassana, Zen practices is in all religions if you look deeply and they are pointing to the same thing.
dude..ur story about buddha is way off man....
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i’ve heard many don’t even make it thru the whole vipassana lol ..
wholeness & balanced vibrations to you, yours & ours brothers