Recent Multi Month Dark Retreat Focused On Brahma Viharas - Discussion
I just posted this in the Concentration & Insight sections, because that is the way this forum is set up, though I don’t personally prescribe to the separation of samatha & vipassana or the translation of samadhi as concentration, rather as collectedness.
Anywho, I recently completed a three month solitary dark room retreat in India, focused solely on the TWIM / Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation practice which uses the brahma viharas as vehicle to move through the jhanas as described by the Buddha in the suttas. I had attended five TWIM 10
day retreats before this self retreat. Overall I’m very grateful for this practice and very thankful that I connected with it right before I was intending to go to Burma and stay at Mahasi Sayadaw monastery. I feel confident this was a positive and beneficial change of fate / karma
.
This is an interview that a much more experienced meditator friend and teacher asked me to give.
https://youtu.be/EssN3-IFrSE
And this is the playlist of what turned into many videos describing some of this recent experience, the practice from my beginner's perspective, some of one's Life journey and India in general haha.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytLvPVhgJlX_tXzKEW3oo1rrz7beBGYt
may you be happy friends.
Anywho, I recently completed a three month solitary dark room retreat in India, focused solely on the TWIM / Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation practice which uses the brahma viharas as vehicle to move through the jhanas as described by the Buddha in the suttas. I had attended five TWIM 10
day retreats before this self retreat. Overall I’m very grateful for this practice and very thankful that I connected with it right before I was intending to go to Burma and stay at Mahasi Sayadaw monastery. I feel confident this was a positive and beneficial change of fate / karma
. This is an interview that a much more experienced meditator friend and teacher asked me to give.
https://youtu.be/EssN3-IFrSE
And this is the playlist of what turned into many videos describing some of this recent experience, the practice from my beginner's perspective, some of one's Life journey and India in general haha.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytLvPVhgJlX_tXzKEW3oo1rrz7beBGYt
may you be happy friends
.
