Following the meditation retreat the monks attended, I asked the monks to come up with adjectives that described the retreat for them.
The monks were to complete the following sentence:
"The meditation retreat was _____________________."
As the monks gave their descriptive words, I wrote them on the board: good amazing, interesting.....
All of this was going very well, until.....
One monk commented that the meditation retreat was "entertaining!" That answer caught me off guard, as well as the other monks!
Peaceful, quiet, calm.... maybe even exciting. But.... a meditation retreat being..... entertaining?
Needless to say, that response got more than a few laughs!
Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka means to see things as they really are. It's one of India's most ancient meditation techniques and was taught more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for illness.
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