retrofuturist wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:54 pm
Greetings,
thepea wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:44 pm
It is a group activity, for support.
This sounds like feelings, not Dhamma.
thepea wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:44 pmMeditate in your room(etc) is easy.
Meditate in group in hall. Medium
Meditate alone in cell. Hard
We choose location based on what we are dealing with.
Is this a Goenka teaching? I've never seen anything like this in the suttas.
All the best.
Metta,
Paul.
When I did the long course and was doing interview with teacher, he mentioned to me that on long courses deeper traumas may present, and suggested working accordingly as I mentioned.
I’m not certain if this instruction is given to all, I don’t recall Goenka mentioning this, but when I begin to use the cells this instruction was given.
Another teacher confirmed the meditation hall is good when sleepy or you are having difficulty looking at certain traumas.
When very concentrated and focused the cell may offer greater solitude to go deeper, and ones room or home might be more relaxing but have to be careful not to sleep.
Each has a differing vibration. The hall you are with kayalamitras who support, but can also burp and fart and keep one distracted.
Although I agree meditation is looking inward, we have to use the facility to our advantage.
All of these teachings I’ve received have been full of wisdom and for compassionate reasons.
I gave myself fully to the centres and never had reason to mistrust. Now that trust has been severed.
Not the practice, but the centres logic.
I cannot accept treating anyone like this. I just could not turn a dhamma student away and cut them from the facility over a slave rag. But they all have and I’m trying to make sense of it. I had thought them wise but all I can figure is they are under financial constraints from the governments and they want to survive at all costs.
I’m looking for another reason, but they have huge infrastructures in place and lots of people who reside on lands.
For me as an absolute purist, and I’ve met others we would rather see the place collapsed than carry on down this road of discriminatory service. The dhamma simply cannot be held hostage regardless of financial or structural constraints.
Am I wrong?