Doing Time

This Post could start with, once up on a time there was an Nepali, Malaysian and Portuguese sharing a room in a Vipassana Center in the middle of the Forest of Pokhara (Bengal Lake).
Learning the value of Tolerance, sharing moments of real pain and happines, ups and downs. All while being in Noble Silence for 10 days. Getting to know the Routine of everyone after a while, no matter which color or religion or ethnic group. In the end we are all human with the same desire to be happy.

Thats the reason for doing time, to find a better way of life, to recognize ourselfs, to know your thoughts and feelings and where you are heading.

This was my second 10 day course and I thought it would be easier than the first, but it was not. The first days are so hard to get your body and mind to calm down and to focus. After that you start actually the Vipassana technique, which simply consists of scanning the body sensations. You might think it is easy, but it is not…the mind wants to keep wandering all the time and is the biggest enemy. It will do everyhting it can to take you out of the process.

Now the sentence makes sence when they say, Your worst enemy is yourself. Until you have tamed your mind, it is like a wild horse, doing what ever it wants.
Vipassana is one tool to help you on the process.

After the 7th day actually started to be more calm and to get some results, i could at least sit still for one hour and mostly be vigilant, attentive and alert.

You think what this means? It means you will watch, every sound, every smell, every thought, every image that goes trough your mind and don´t react to it. I mean every of this things…it requres a lot of focus, all this while in sitting posture and scanning for body sensations and again don´t react to them.

The sense doors (sound, thought, smell, etc..) will lead to body sensations, which we will avaluate with good or bad and that´s where the problem starts. We will crave for the good ones and have aversion for the bad ones…

I am gratefull to the lineage of Masters that kept the technique all this years, since buddha untill now, to all the teachers that thought me the Technique and mostly to Goenka Ji who spread it around the World. Thank you !!!

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