Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #491088 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Synopsis
Featuring accounts by practitioners living everyday lives, this introduction to Vipassana meditation provides a way for readers to learn more about its benefits. Explained is what takes place before, during, and after a ten-day silent meditation retreat. Each participant follows the same discipline: silence, a basic moral code known as the five precepts, a prescribed timetable, a vegetarian diet, and a commitment to practising only what is taught at the retreat. This first-person account of the retreat reveals the challenges and benefits of facing reality head-on through direct observation and of learning to observe instead of reacting to thoughts, emotions, and sensations. In addition, the ways in which Vipassana meditation techniques are applied to individuals, institutions, children, prisoners, work places, and fields of science and social action are examined. Although based on the teachings of the Buddha, the practice of Vipassana as illustrated in this book has broad appeal to other religious and non-sectarian audiences.

Customer Reviews

Accurate and honest
this is an accurate and honest books that looks into hundreds of accounts of people who have experienced the benefits and rewards of practicing vipassana meditation. Being a meditator myself I can say that the information in this book is true and can be trusted, it is all, afterall based on people's own experiences.

USeful to give insight into the potential benefits of practicing this Buddhist based meditation technique (Vipassana)