Essays about: "Vipassana"

Found 2 essays containing the word Vipassana.

1. 1. The Challenges of Goenka’s Vipassana : How Participants of the Ten-Day Course Make Sense of the Intense Internal Experiences Induced by Vipassana Meditation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap

   Author : Jan Wallentin; [2023]
   Keywords : Goenka; dhamma; Vipassana; meditation; meditation retreats; ten-day course; energe-like somatic experiences ELSE ; adverse experiences; anomalous experiences; subtle energy; Theravada Buddhism; modern Buddhism; body psychotherapy; secular spirituality; new spirituality; phenomenography; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : In this study, 28 individuals were interviewed about their experiences and interpretations of S. N. Goenka’s ten-day Vipassana course, which involves intense meditation practices. READ MORE

3. 2. Exploring Spaces of Not Knowing : an Artist View

   University essay from Konstfack/IBIS - Institutionen för bild- och slöjdpedagogik

   Author : Nike Edelholm; [2018]
   Keywords : Art-education; Art; Buddhism; Calligraphy; Chinese Classical Painting; Creativity; Dao; Diffraction; Entanglement; Experience; Here Now; John Cage; Not-Knowing; Performing; Present-Moment; Onto-Epistem-Ology; Risk; Trust; Vulnerability; Painting; Post-Humanism; Rune Hagberg; Shi Tao.;

   Abstract : The understanding, I draw from this inquiry has come through a muddy, and complex entangledprocess. I have been re-turning like a "Baradian" earthworm, to experiences of being, in spacesof not-knowing. Digesting the mud, moving it, once more, like worms do, through the body. READ MORE