Vipassana Meditation Retreats
This cluster focuses on recommendations for Vipassana meditation, especially the 10-day silent retreats taught in S.N. Goenka's style at dhamma.org centers, with users sharing personal experiences, benefits, and links to resources.
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Try a vipassana meditation retreat ;-)
Look at the Yoga and meditation part please... seems like you have not read it!
Go on this 10 day vipassana retreat: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index. It will immensely help you. (its free including lodging and food for 10 days)
try vipassana meditation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā
You are right, there are different definitions and practices. Some do contradict each other.I practice vipassana (mindfulness) in the Goenka style. It's a very deep practice, without any chanting, no visualisation or beliefs. It's about staying in the moment and 'scanning' the body with equanimity and awareness. Deep traumas rise up and dissolve, the mind gets sharper, your ability to cope with daily struggles jumps up dramatically.This practice must be experienc
Check out "Doing Time Doing Vipassana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxSyv5R1sg
Meditation is wonderful. I've been meditating for 13 years at the remarkable multi-day retreats managed and run by dhamma.org.I would caution that the instruction is given by video recording by S.N. Goenka, who is a man with great faith in Buddhist scripture, and that faith pops out pretty strongly in places (e.g. karmic rebirth). If you can forgive that, he is careful to stress that the practical aspects of the technique and that they are by far more important than theory. I know
If you're considering a type of meditation, I suspect the consensus of Hacker News meditators is for Vipassana meditation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032 The book is free. http://mail.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm
Highly recommend Vipassana Meditation (S.N. Goenka https://www.dhamma.org). They have centers all over India. You gotta start with a 10-day course.
There are many good answers, like Vipassana, Dzongchen, even Yoga - any of derivatives of Upanishads and Buddha's insights. The problems is that for most people it means nothing, or just a mythology, so they dismiss it with a first mention.This could be rationalized, because, like it is with every "good idea" in the world, "other people" piled up such mountains of nonsense, and pushed that nonsense using the best manipulative techniques available to humanity, that som