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On a personal note, after our Buddhist community in the RGV was contacted by prisoners, we are starting to get a mediation group going with their input in a month or two. Three of us have finished the state paperwork, now we need our volunteer training and is up and running.
On a personal note, after our Buddhist community in the RGV was contacted by prisoners, we are starting to get a mediation group going with their input in a month or two. Three of us have finished the state paperwork, now we need our volunteer training and is up and running.
That is great! Could you keep us posted on how things are going?
It is a fabulous documentary. In a "prison within a prison" referring to the 10 day "lock-in" of silence and Vipassana meditation,the transformation that the participating inmates underwent was amazing, often times tearful. I highly recommend it.
Shinjin datsuraku, datsuraku shinjin..Body-mind drop off, mind-body drop off..
Hi everyone!
It is a wonderful documentary! The involvement of the teachers, personal stories of each inmates being told when you feel they are changing... perhaps a bit too dramatic for me!
But it's a wonderful course to be given in prisons and out of prisons of course!
I've been doing two 10day courses in the tradition of SN Goenka (the same one as in the movie) and it was just great!
Of course, it is a bit strange to wake up at 4h in the morning or not eating during the afternoon... but it is a great place to practice "anapanasati" and vipassana in an environment dedicated to a serious practice and for me it has helped my practice of zazen ... I've seen it like a kind of preparation, like a course to sharpen my attention and that profit my zazen ...
Wow... Sorry folks... I'm out of the subject again!
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