Vipassana Meditation
I will be back in speaking and walking built urban landscapes on August 3rd.
In the meantime, Ill be at an ashram in the forest outside of Merrit, BC meditating for 10 days, abstaining from speaking. All meals are provided. Its all by-donation.
Ill will have no EM communication technologies at my disposal for the duration.
I leave at 10am tomorrow by greyhound.
I am super excited about this. I have two close friends who have done this before and it had always intrigued me.
Buckminster Fuller did two years of self-imposed silence (while he had a family no less.) According to this Auto-Bio I was reading a few years ago: He was worried that nothing he was saying were his words, but merely the words of the age, playing through him. he and other around him were at best repeating conventional sentences and ideas ad nauseam. his solution was to purge the formations hoisted upon him through discourse through attentiveness and visual thought.
This is not my project tho, but an interesting corollary nonetheless.
I am not really sure what I intend or hope for in all this. I reckon I expect an Adventure really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā
In the meantime, Ill be at an ashram in the forest outside of Merrit, BC meditating for 10 days, abstaining from speaking. All meals are provided. Its all by-donation.
Ill will have no EM communication technologies at my disposal for the duration.
I leave at 10am tomorrow by greyhound.
I am super excited about this. I have two close friends who have done this before and it had always intrigued me.
Buckminster Fuller did two years of self-imposed silence (while he had a family no less.) According to this Auto-Bio I was reading a few years ago: He was worried that nothing he was saying were his words, but merely the words of the age, playing through him. he and other around him were at best repeating conventional sentences and ideas ad nauseam. his solution was to purge the formations hoisted upon him through discourse through attentiveness and visual thought.
This is not my project tho, but an interesting corollary nonetheless.
I am not really sure what I intend or hope for in all this. I reckon I expect an Adventure really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā