I start a ten day meditation course today.

Ten whole days of silence..

That's like 240 hours of being stuck in my head.


And there have been fucking cats yelling out my window all night.


And it feels like Bangkok vomited all over me.

 

Soooo you can't talk to anybody or anything for 10 days?

 

Well you can talk to the teachers if you have any questions, but besides that, you have as little human contact as possible, even eye contact.

It can be nice, but 10 days is a long time to not speak.

Its amazing how many thoughts run through your mind when you can't move your mouth.

I call it monkey mind.

 

right on drew

 

thats pretty cool man ive done that but only for a weekend, 3 days friday through sunday and thought that was hard

 

its alll just "blah blah blah blah blah"...

you're better off without words

 

sounds nice to me...

but the agoraphobia monster agrees with me on that.. so it might not be good.

 

Nice, respect. The thing i find funny, is when you don't talk to somebody then they take it personally and think you are disrespecting them. Ahh society isn't it fucked.

 

I'm on the bus right now..

I'm like the only white person..

 

does that contact include on the internet too? i think i could go without communication for a week, but i am a person that talks to themselves alot.

 

Well, we're almost there.


See you guys iin ten days!

 

Good Luck, Catch You In Ten....



Cheers Glen.

 

Well, I made it through in one piece, in spite of the incessant monkey mind, tearing at my sanity. I learned a great deal about myself and the Iniverse, most of which I had already understood on an intellectual level, but was able to experience for myself. On the fourth day, when we actually started practicing vipassana, I felt this great surge, which seemed to emenate from the core of me be-ing, and continue through all of the Iniverse.

I was filled with a great compassion, one which left me awestruck, and honestly quite surprised, that I could find such a thing inside my Self. I realised that just as my body is composed of billions of cells coming together in unison to create something greater than the sum of its parts, me and my meat sack were in the same way, a part of a greater Whole. I was overwhelmed by joyous tears, as I was struck by the awesome bigness and smallness of it all. I realised that my pain is quite insignificant, in relation to the pain and suffering of all other be-ings.

It was a beautiful and lifechanging experience, and I will tell you more, but now I must eat lunch.

 

Silence is good.
You learn and listen more...

I think having one day of silence is always good here and there but not ten.. haha.

 

Wouldn't interacting with people online affect the meditation- or what it is supposed to accomplish? Granted it is not a break of vocal silence but it is an interactive conceptual outlook that engages an area of the mind that is supposed to be idled- or at least disengaged when practicing a certain dimension of mental silence -no?

 

well, his last post before today was 10 days ago...


at least in this thread. i don't care enough about his vow of silence to check all his recent posts.

 

Upon reading this I see the thread was begun 10 days ago... so my question is moot. I was wondering about how such a meditation would work... sounds like something I might find useful- except my job requires a good deal of human interaction... some with people who by their very nature would intrude on a mental state of relaxation.

 

heh, i did almost ask the same question myself, only to notice the timestamps just in time.

 

Yeah, no internet.

They ask you to deposit all mobile phones and electronics with them on the first day.

Its supposed to be as if you are working in total isolation, you aren't even supposed to communicate through gestures or eye contact.

 

Well, my gut is all clean, and the busses have arrived to take us back to Bangkok.

I must say, I'll miss this place. As much as I gate being stuck anywhere for ten days, leaving here comes with a sense of liberation.