Reply To: About Vipassana-insight technique taught by teacher S.N. Goenka

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Yash RS
Participant

I have also practiced Goenka’s Vipassana and to be honest it was a torture to the mind.

Even if you feel a strong itch or muscle cramp, they advise you to stay in that position as these sensations or pains are “mental defilements that are being released through the body”! 

I never used to really”enjoy” that meditation, as it was both physically and mentally fatiguing. I don’t know how can one see the equanimity of everything without understanding the Buddha Dhamma first.

I never experienced any progress in terms of mental defilements, but more irritation in the mind because of the above mentioned things. That was in 2013, then after 9 years I came across the true dhamma.