Sunday, April 19, 2009

Silent Vipassana meditation retreat - one week



It may surprise some of you but I wanted to learn how to meditate so I thought, what better way then just thowing myself in at the deep end...

A one week Vipassana silent meditation retreat in Bali's oldest temple way up north is what I went for!





Some pictures all taken on last day (Nyepi), of the calmness found there.






















Day programme for 7 days:
2.45 am Bell for getting up to start meditating
6.00 am Bell for breakfast
11.00 am Bell for lunch (last meal of day)
14.00 pm Bell for 2 hour break as meditating throughout afternoon
22.00 pm Bell for bed time!

And that was not the hardest... the hardest was to stop thinking! And be aware and mindful all the time...
I thought I was spiritually void before I experienced this week, but I had some incredible happenings during that week which I did not expect at all... I think we should all try this at least once in our lives!
















This last one was on the last evening, when the teacher was speaking to the Indonesian-speaking group and a lighting storm lit the sky behind him. I caught a part of the lit sky on this last picture.

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5 comments:

  1. marisaAugust 5, 2009 at 6:16 AM

    Hi Lucy,

    Can you tell me the name of the temple where you did the one week Vipassana?

    Thanks!

    M x

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  2. UnknownSeptember 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    Yes, please email more info on this retreat, we will be in Bali in Feb and would love to experience this. THanks! info@casasanmiguelsb.com

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  3. virvirNovember 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM

    Hi Lucy,

    I wish to do a vipassano retreat this january, the place you went seems very beautiful, could you please tell more information about it...name, location

    Thank you very much for your attention

    Kind regards,

    Virginie

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  4. UnknownJanuary 5, 2010 at 4:00 AM

    I am willing to do this Vipassana meditation in Bali this feb 2010 could you plz. provide me with necessary information.

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  5. Lucy FMay 19, 2010 at 10:51 AM

    Hi All, Apologies, I had no idea people had commented on these posts... it has been so long I've looked at the blog. This is the info for the silent meditation retreat in Northern Bali:

    http://meditasi-mengenal-diri.org/krishnamurti_vipassana_schedule2010a.html

    BALI: at BRAHMAVIHARA-ARAMA, Buleleng District, Northern Bali
    * 9 - 17 March
    * 3 - 11 Juli
    * 29 October - 7 November (with Ven Sayadaw U Tejaniya from Myanmar)

    Registration:
    * Iwan Ananta Wijaya, 0811 399244, wanantawi@yahoo.com,
    * Yopi Sutedjo, 0812 3908636, deepblue992000@yahoo.com

    I hope you still are able to join in the next one. Please see the website and ask Yopi (email above) who is very helpful!

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