Thanks for taking the time to collect and post all this material on Goenka's vipassana in one place. When I have more time I will get through it all. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I still sit nearly every day, but I am over any concerns about practising in the way that Goenka states we have to practise and feel no compulsion to have any part in his organization.
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I too spent a lot of time within Vipassana centres and sitting courses. I came to realise more and more that I could not accept the central notion that the particular form of meditation practised by S.N.Goenka and supposedly by a long unbroken chain stretching back to Gautama buddha was in fact the very technique by which the buddha became fully enlightened and was in fact that only way that any
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