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Contents
About the Vipassana Retreat ........................................................................ 1 Basic Instructions for Vipassana Meditation ..................................... 4The Retreat Interview .................................................................................... 11Day 1: Orientation to the Practice ........................................................ 13Day 2: The Path of Purification ................................................................ 18Day 3: Investigating the Reality of the Body ................................ 26Day 4: Full Attention to Daily Activities ......................................... 32Day 5: Paying Attention to Feelings ...................................................... 38Day 6: How to Handle Thinking & Pain ............................................... 43Day 7: Wise Attention at the Sense-Spheres ................................... 48Day 8: Combining Loving-kindness with Vipassana ....................... 56Day 9: Difficulties Facing Meditators & Their Solutions ....... 62Day 10: Continuing the Practice at Home ........................................ 69 About the teacher: ............................................................................................ 73
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About the Vipassana Retreat
V
ipassana meditation
requires long-term commitment. While it can be done to some extent in everyday life, realis-tically for the practice to deepen it needs to be done intensively in a supportive retreat situation. Vipassana meditation is devel-opmental, so to realise its ultimate benefit it has to be sustained with appropriate intensity under supportive conditions such as the Seven Types of Suitability: • Place or Dwelling— well-furnished and supported centre or monastery, secluded and quiet, easily accessible, few insects, basic requirements of food, clothes and medicine. • Location— not too far or close to town. • Food— a balanced diet, healthy, digestible and nourishing, taken in moderate amounts. • People— other meditators as companions, considerate with good attitude and practice. • Teacher (kalyana-mitta)— learned and respected teacher who speaks and listens well. • Noble Silence— other than informative Dhamma talks and interviews with the teacher. • Weather— not too hot or cold, i.e. a temperate climate.Vipassana retreat centres specialising in the needs of vipassana practitioners have evolved around the world to cater for these requirements and conditions, usually to the exclusion of any worldly, religious or study activities.
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