"It was the most amazing trip I've done in my life, without taking a single aircraft and just without leaving an area of some square blocks," says Axel Delttoni, author of this chronicle on the Vipassana meditation course. For 10 days in silence says, you learn to clear the mind of all resentments, anxieties and doubts that prevent appreciate the gift of life.
It was eight years ago when I first heard the word Vipassana, and without knowing the meaning thought life could mean healthy. Change the "p" for "d" and you take away an "s" and there it is, but its true meaning is translated from the ancient Pali, "see things as they are." And while you think, see things as they are will lead to a healthy life, or vice versa. Anyway, what we do know is that …show more content…
My wife took me like me travel to another dimension, where it would be incommunicado for 10 days. I would not know how after that silent immersion, which would myself like never before had done. Would it change things about my personality? ¿Would discover new things? Would you be able to get rid of those aspects that did not like me and made me suffer? ¿I would go out unbeaten this ordeal?
The farm La Milagrosa, the place that the organization rents for the course, is more than you can expect: comfy beds, hot water, an environment with forest, gardens and separate areas for men and women. The organization is impeccable and exemplary, not only for its efficiency, but because former students of Vipassana who decide voluntarily and selflessly serve to enable the course to take place, allowing more people to benefit from the technique are. That ability to touched my heart from day one, leaving a glimpse of the gift that was about to receive.
Participants who were arriving, men and women, were from 21-78 years. There were people with experience in meditation and some that never in my life had been sitting cross-legged, unless it was to play with a child or sit alongside the fire at a
It was eight years ago when I first heard the word Vipassana, and without knowing the meaning thought life could mean healthy. Change the "p" for "d" and you take away an "s" and there it is, but its true meaning is translated from the ancient Pali, "see things as they are." And while you think, see things as they are will lead to a healthy life, or vice versa. Anyway, what we do know is that …show more content…
My wife took me like me travel to another dimension, where it would be incommunicado for 10 days. I would not know how after that silent immersion, which would myself like never before had done. Would it change things about my personality? ¿Would discover new things? Would you be able to get rid of those aspects that did not like me and made me suffer? ¿I would go out unbeaten this ordeal?
The farm La Milagrosa, the place that the organization rents for the course, is more than you can expect: comfy beds, hot water, an environment with forest, gardens and separate areas for men and women. The organization is impeccable and exemplary, not only for its efficiency, but because former students of Vipassana who decide voluntarily and selflessly serve to enable the course to take place, allowing more people to benefit from the technique are. That ability to touched my heart from day one, leaving a glimpse of the gift that was about to receive.
Participants who were arriving, men and women, were from 21-78 years. There were people with experience in meditation and some that never in my life had been sitting cross-legged, unless it was to play with a child or sit alongside the fire at a