My experience of Vipassana 10 day course

I am going to share my experience of Vipassana 10 day course. It is almost a month I had done the course and I will not say that life is completely changed. One thing that I gain from this hard core meditation course is awareness. There is something we all seek in this world. All living beings. Plants seek sunlight to grow, animals seek food to survive, and humans are confused. Most of us are never aware what our path is.

We live in some others thought. And that motivate us. Like in India, young people have more moral responsibilities. Looking out the elders of family, earning a stable income, getting married soon, etc. Life is likes a constant machine which keeps on working 24x7 without considering anything. We fails, we success, everything is a part of this chain. But there is a different world that we ignore. It is around us. You call it spiritual world, dreams, emotions, etc. This world teaches us the real nature of Life.

 

Guruji said, the constant nature of this universe is to create itself. It keeps on regenerating constantly and that’s why we think its stable. Like our planet Earth. Just imaging living on a oval shape object that does not has any support from any corner. It is floating, circling around sun. What makes this planet so stable and fruitful for life. In the same way if we talk about Time then, time keeps on regenerating itself and we physically grow from child to an old person. That’s because Time is bounded by the Universe. It is an element inside Universe.

For some time if your will power is strong, you push your elemental body out of a circle. And this is a very rare instance that sometime happens to some in this 10 day course. A stage where there is nothing. Your physical appearance just dissolves. There are no emotions, no movement, all you find is peace. Vipassana is very tough. It is not easy to challenge your behaviour pattern and modify it. The toughest person in this world you will meet is you. There is no one else. If you think you are weak, and you can get bullied by anyone, then it’s your stiff mind. Just that thought is enough to break you and push you towards failure. But if you believe that I can face any challenge, let it come, then there is nothing that can stop you.

Buddha says “We are the product of our own Mind”. Mind the world or just some reference. Mind is something that you see in mirror. It’s you. When you see yourself you might think, I may not be good looking, I may not be smart, etc. Weaker thoughts keeps you making week, stronger thoughts makes you strong. Sometime too much motivation adds over-confidence and ego.

Through regular practice of Vipassana, it is possible to learn this thought process and maintain a balance. Everyone faces some down time in life. Some of us are sometime in the worst condition. I always pray that God protect me. I get nervous soon.

You don’t need a super natural power to become great person. All deeds will be possible if you actively regulate your will power. 

There are tons of examples around us, where people do outstanding things, just because they want to. They prove themselves and inspire billions. This process will constantly continue till Human life exist on this planet. Vipassana has a stage, where like a scientist you understand the process of Creation. You get your answers on your own observation. Slowly it feels that you are moving with the universe in harmony. 

It is an amazing experience but very tough. Very hard to overcome our beliefs and faith. Being born in Hindu family, I am inspired by the many literature, and characters in it. But I always want an answer, the one whom I see as God, does exist or not. Or it’s just because millions of people are doing the same process again and again, so I have to do. My genes are programmed to accept what is happening. This is not just applicable to me and this is not a dis-respect to any culture. Someday we will have to figure out on our own and that is the time when your journey starts. There are so many people like me who live and die in confusion. 

And the confusion is linked with the art of living. One of the greatest things I felt a lot is affection, love. You don’t have to express yourself if you love anyone. That person is in your soul forever. Love never demands. It only gives. That is the reason all great saints and gods who walk on our planet were so caring. They give us abundant love and they are still giving. Because they live in us. Your god in you and you have to learn to see.

It will only be possible if your start observing above your thoughts or a pattern of life that is given us to when we are born. There is nothing wrong in doing what you are doing right now. The way you pray, the way you express your culture. It’s just the love that you are attached. Vipassna just means seeing more clearly.