Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a documentary that explores the use of a meditation technique named Vipassana in one of India’s most harshest prisons as a means of rehabilitation for the prisoners. The filmmakers spent a lot of time inside the Tihar Central prison in New Delhi where they interviewed the inmates and the jail officers along with the woman who introduced the Vipassana meditation technique to the prison, a woman named Kiran Bedi, a former General of Prisons in India. The film explains how Vipassana originated and how it was used in other prisons. The strict course consists of 10 days of complete silence from its participants that forces introspection and aids in showing people how to take control and channel their lives towards a
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This was the largest course ever held in modern times. Due to the success of
Vipassana in the Tihar prison, a meditation center opened which offered regular courses to inmates. This film relates to chapter 12 (“Religion and Spirituality”), as it states that we can use spirituality as a means for social change. Meditation is way to explore spirituality and the goal of spirituality is to increase and develop our levels of consciousness and self- transcendence thus broadening one’s concept of self, which in turn leads to the strengthening of our sense of responsibility towards the world. This sense of responsibility moves people to take action towards social justice and peace. Through the use of the Vipassana technique, inmates underwent a profound change and realized that prison was not the end but a beginning to a more positive and meaningful life where they could correct mistakes from the past and let go of former grievances against people.
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a riveting documentary that proposes an unconventional solution to the overcrowded unstable prison conditions around the world, mostly because it proposes to reinstate and reform prisoners as opposed to just punishing them.
This was the largest course ever held in modern times. Due to the success of
Vipassana in the Tihar prison, a meditation center opened which offered regular courses to inmates. This film relates to chapter 12 (“Religion and Spirituality”), as it states that we can use spirituality as a means for social change. Meditation is way to explore spirituality and the goal of spirituality is to increase and develop our levels of consciousness and self- transcendence thus broadening one’s concept of self, which in turn leads to the strengthening of our sense of responsibility towards the world. This sense of responsibility moves people to take action towards social justice and peace. Through the use of the Vipassana technique, inmates underwent a profound change and realized that prison was not the end but a beginning to a more positive and meaningful life where they could correct mistakes from the past and let go of former grievances against people.
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a riveting documentary that proposes an unconventional solution to the overcrowded unstable prison conditions around the world, mostly because it proposes to reinstate and reform prisoners as opposed to just punishing them.