11/08/2023
Vipassina reflections.
This simple hall changed everything.
Do it. Go on one. It's life changing.
10 days of silence, 10hours of meditation was one of my biggest fears. Sitting with my own mind, my own thoughts no distractions, none of the wonderful things I now have to keep me happy and stable. No books, no climbing, yoga, writing, podcasts, dancing, music. Nothing! Just me. Had I done enough 'work' to not lose my s**t?
So much of me was fighting it, with excuses, ways out- "Is it really the best use of ur summer? Surely you should be having fun not torturing urself with silence?" On and on went my mind, looking for ways to not go! Ways to avoid the discomfort and seek comfort!
So I went. I knew that discomfort is where the growth happens. That joy and bliss are great but we need the tricky hard bits for change...
I survived. I didn't break. It was equally horribly hard and glorious. I have never been so quiet and still my whole life. It was utterly mind blowingly magical!
Anyway...give it a go!
Vipassina atleast once in a lifetime.
