Written by Dipanshu Mansingka from Hyderabad, India about his experience as a research subject for a study about Vipassana that has been blessed by S.N. Goenkaji and granted permission by VRI. He spent three days as a subject at Neurophysiology Department, NIMHANS, Bengluru (Bangalore). http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/neurophysiology/default.htm Saturday early morning I had reached Nimhans. Nirmala guided me to the guest room. …
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Kiran Bedi
Written by Dipanshu Mansingka from Hyderabad, India While serving course in 1996 at Tihar, I came across an inmate in his late sixties. He was extradited from Canada to India. In 1960′s he was the laser scientist in India. He had sugar, BP and other health issues for which he had to take lot of …
Love Myself, Love My Family, Then Worry About Everything Else
Two hours a day seems like a huge investment until you consider why you're doing it. We, as a society, spend so much time trying to solve issues like gun control, violence, and environmental destruction when we haven't even solved the most simple and important questions that impact every moment of our daily life. First, …
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Very Slow, Very Steady
Three years into my Vipassana journey I'm needing to accept just how slow the process of changing the habit pattern of the mind is. I'm so used to finding quick fix solutions like 8 minute abs and pills that solve problems that I'm still trying to understand what it means for this path to be a life …
A Reader’s Personal Story
This post is from a guest writer named Dipanshu Mansingka living in Hyderabad, India: My mother took me to Dhammagiri when I was 9 years old studying in 3rd standard. She sat a course and I was staying in the hall (present day Main office). Some volunteers used to help me getting food. At times …
Proactive Healthcare
Meditation has made me more proactive about my heathcare. I'm used to living in a very reactive system where we only go to the doctor when we get sick, we only stop doing harmful things like drinking, smoking, and eating fast foods when they're literally killing us, and we only exercise as much as we need …
The Reward Is Peace Of Mind
There is a perceived trade-off between taking care of oneself and taking care of others but I no longer find this true. This shift has occurred because my understanding of what it is to help others has changed. When my goals revolved around success, help ment helping others be successful, but then I realized that …
Going Right To The Source
Meditators and non-meditators all want to live happy, healthy, and productive lives. There are so many ways to make incremental improvements to our lives that we all share and understand. Healthy eating, exercise, education, family and friends each contribute to our lives in positive ways. Everyone can relate to this. But things start to get …
Yoga
Yoga is helping me see the physical impact of meditation on my body. I've always carried a tremendous amount of tension in my shoulders. When I started meditating I could basically count on some uncomfortable gross sensation in my left shoulder and arm. For about 1.5 years my arm carried these ever-changing uncomfortable sensations until as some point they stopped …
Keeping Focused on Meditation
I've had a great start to the year. My primary goal was to build up my community of support and friendship and on all accounts I've made positive steps forward. I've found some skilled and dedicated writers to share this blog which as caused the viewership to basically double. My very small group sitting (sometimes …
Living Vipassana 