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[adventureman]

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[eamo]

Last year I worked in a hagwon in Apgujeong which shared the building with a Vipassana Meditation Center.

I didn't learn much about it except that one member was an exceptionally cute girl with excellent English.

Perhaps you could go there and get a taste of what it's all about.

PM for directions.

[manlyboy]

[captain kirk]

Back in Canada I knew a Buddhist nun and, being a pro meditator, had her views on Goenka's teachings. She was of the Tibetan school. But she was with the V group for a while.

Since you don't talk, and it's all about shutting up and sitting still and breathing, it's a structure for that. I think the custom is to give a donation at the end of the second retreat you take, but the first is free.

They have centers/retreats worldwide.

Before you go warm up gradually increasing your sitting time, to hours a day instead of minutes. So when the course comes and you're sitting cross-legged on a cushion for ten hours a day it's no shock.

[igotthisguitar]

[adventureman]

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[Bulsajo]

Details, details!
Did you fall asleep halfway through morning meditation and accidentally kill a cockroach, or what?

[cruisemonkey]

Each to their own... but do you really need to go through that to develop self-discipline?

[pollyplummer]

Seems like it might be easier to buy some rice and fruit and cook your own breakfast and meditate at home for four hours. That way you can get your text messages and answer any urgent calls or flip on the tv if the transcending isn't going so well...

[Rteacher]

Western Mass. in September should have been a nice setting anyway (especially if was in the Berkshires...)

There's no shortage of bluffers and cheaters among "spiritualists". Others offer sytems of meditation and yoga that are not practical - in this age - for most people.

Unfortunately, most people are too materially absorbed - or have been been turned off by cheating religion - to be seriously take to the spiritual path. For those who sincerely want to make progress, the supersoul (paramatma) expansion of God dwelling within will guide one to contact a qualified spiritual master. Everything is based on desire. Many people, tricked by their own minds or misled by others, actually desire to be cheated...

A bona fide spiritual master or guru sees himself as the servant of the servant of the servant (etc...) of God and is connected via an unbroken chain of disciplic succession going back 5000 years to the original spiritual master and speaker of Bhagavad-gita, Krishna.

Actually, Lord Buddha, although an incarnation of God or Vishnu, propagated a philosophical system that was intended to trick atheists (and materialistic religionists) into worshipping Him. Buddhism was subsequently defeated and virtually driven out of India by great acharyas who reestablished the Vedic principles of Bhagavad-gita.

There are have been many different translations (over 600) of Bhagavad-gita in English, but most all of them were done by academics who were not devotees of Krishna - or else by philosophers who wanted to present their own distinct views in their Gita commentaries.

Of all the yogis and swamis who journeyed West with their preaching (or business) missions, the most outstanding and devotionally qualified was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada whose main qualification was to present Krishna's timeless message "as it is" - purely - without any adulteration or material motivation.

Those who are wise - or just curious - or in search of relief from material distress... - can check out these transcendental books at www.krishna.com

[igotthisguitar]

[Rteacher]

Maybe "they" (...the alien-cultists ...) have since kidnapped him, and he's on his way to another planet ... another universe ...

[Babayaga]

[Rteacher]

...But it depends on the quality of the meditation - if you meditate on "nothing" or nonsense ... you'll end up doing "nothing" or nonsense (while some shady "yogi" or "master" usually profits from it...) Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra is the easiest, most powerful and most practical meditation - and it's free...

(Of course, when I was more seriously into it I'd get up by 3:30 every morning, congregationally chant and dance in the temple at 4:30, meditate privately on beads for a couple hours... then return to the temple at 7:00 for "greeting the dieties" (to the "Govindam" tune produced by George Harrison) and Srimad Bhagavatam class followed by more chanting and dancing till breakfast at 8:30...Then, most devotees would go out to distribute transcendental literature all day - or stay back to do various services around the temple - After dinner, most devotees would congregate again for the evening program featuring Bhagavad-gita class and heavy-duty chanting and dancing with Indian drums, hand cymbols and gongs... It was certainly "different," but it was enjoying on a higher level - and without the drugs most of us had previously been into...)

[desultude]