Marie Langhoff-Roos

:O why not Marie??

¿Te vas de vacaciones? :))

Back from this 10 day course in Vipassana meditation in Sweden... With noble silence (means no communication, verbal or non verbal), to meals a day, a daily program that starts at 4.00 am and finish at 9.00 pm and consists of.... meditating :-)

What an experience....!

so did you .. well, like it, or rather: was it fruitful for you? Would you recommend the experience? I'd love to hear / read more about it.

Dhania;


:-) Yes I think it was a very fruitful experience but a lot of hard work also... 5 women out of 34 quit the course, because it was to hard for them... 3 men out of 32 quit the course for the same reason...


I stayed, but I would be lieing if I told you that it is only a good experience...


I can write you a mail about the details if you'd like?

Ciberado;


Not saying a word wasn't really the hardest part, which may sound strange, but when you have serious physical pain and you are using your brain as much as we were, you start to enjoy the silence, trust me :-)


But on the other hand, it was quite hard to walk by a crying woman sitting on a bench, not being allowed to comfort her with words or a hug... That I missed. Being able to show that I do care of other human beings and not only myself...


I don't think you would explode, but it would probably be a challenge. I talk A LOT and it was a huge challenge fot me to shut up and think ;-)

Dhania;
Where do I write to?

wow marie, i really admire your strength to go through this meditation, sounds like a really tough experiment and i am really glad you were successful, i am sure your insight about many things have changed, my mom has some experience with "retiros" in México, but she has never been to any exercise longer than 5 days, and also they had 1 daily meeting every evening to discuss the matters of the day. i truly think that what you did was great!

and your experience reminded me of this german documentary film about Carthusian order of monks in France, who live under a vote of Silence, i think you and dhania will appreciate it, Into Great Silence,

http://www.diegrossestille.de/deutsch/index.html