Goenka
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A Simple Path – Part 1
A Simple Path – Part 2
A Simple Path – Part 3
I find the following teachings by Dharma teacher Goenka clear and to the point. These 10 days discourse is a precious gift from the man. Goenka provided a clear explaination on Vipassana meditation.
For full discourse visit:
- Day 1 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=MO6WJEP8
- Day 2 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=U578B1DM
- Day 3 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=9726HSN1
- Day 4 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=9W3W1D3X
- Day 5 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=X97BPJM3
- Day 6 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=5MLLLT62
- Day 7 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=5LNKFVOJ
- Day 8 – http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=DXC2MF1H
- Day 9 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQ5HOC4B
- Day 11 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YHC0JVLC
- Audio day’s 1 to 11 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I3YCNHAZ
Goenka – Vipassana Meditation
Thanks to Triplexity for uploading the video.
“There are three steps to the training given in a meditation course. First, one must abstain from any action, physical or vocal, which disturbs the peace and harmony of others. One cannot work to liberate oneself from impurities of the mind while at the same time continuing to perform deeds of body and speech which only multiply them. Therefore, a code of morality is the essential first step of the practice. One undertakes not to kill, not to steal, not to commit sexual misconduct, not to tell lies, and not to use intoxicants. By abstaining from such actions, one allows the mind to quiet down sufficiently in order to proceed further.
The next step is to develop some mastery over this wild mind by training it to remain fixed on a single object, the breath. One tries to keep one’s attention on the respiration for as long as possible. This is not a breathing exercise; one does not regulate the breath. Instead, one observes natural respiration as it is, as it comes in, as it goes out. In this way one further calms the mind so that it is no longer overpowered by intense negativities. At the same time, one is concentrating the mind, making it sharp and penetrating, capable of the work of insight.
These first two steps, living a moral life, and controlling the mind, are very necessary and beneficial in themselves, but they will lead to suppression of negativities unless one takes the third step: purifying the mind of defilements by developing insight into one’s own nature. This is Vipassana: experiencing one’s own reality by the systematic and dispassionate observation within oneself of the ever-changing mind-matter phenomenon manifesting itself as sensations. This is the culmination of the teaching of the Buddha: self-purification by self-observation.”
