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Ethnography of the Vipassana Meditation Retreat

Fieldwork in Religion, 2015
The practice of vipassana meditation emphasizes the role of meditative experience in coming to understand the Buddhist worldview and in effecting personal transformation. Data obtained from fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2005 at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre (BMIMC) in Medlow Bath, NSW Australia, illustrate the process by which ...
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Purpose and method of Vipassana meditation.

The Humanistic Psychologist, 1994
This article was originally presented orally by Shinzen Young as the opening talk of a retreat he led, on the practice of Vipassana meditation. The editor decided to retain its flavor as a talk by keeping intact the conversational aspects of the presentation as it was first given.
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Vipassana Meditation im Westen

2012
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit ist, den heilsamen Effekt der Vipassana Meditation auf allen Ebenen zu untersuchen. Vipassana ist eine Meditationsform mit buddhistischen Wurzeln. Der Buddhismus war schon Gegenstand vieler anthropologischer Untersuchungen, meist in historischen Kontexten oder Ritualforschungen.
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Vipassana Meditation and the Psychobiology of Wilhelm Reich

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1985
Theravada Buddhism and Reich's psychobiology appear at first to be polar opposites. Yet there is a Theravada school of meditation, the Vipassana of U Ba Khin, which in both theory and practice turns out to be remarkably close to Reich's worldview and his therapy.
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Meditation and Awakening in the American Vipassana Network

2019
Certain patterns have developed around meditation and enlightenment, or awakening, as many prefer to call it, in the American Insight network. Network here is defined as a loose affiliation of individuals and communities that prioritize Vipassana meditation as their central practice and trace their immediate Buddhist roots to Burmese and Thai ...
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A Critical Analysis of the Concepts and Measurement of Awareness and Equanimity in Goenka’s Vipassana Meditation

Journal of Religion and Health, 2013
Goenka's Vipassana meditation (GVM), a widely applied mindfulness training system rooted in Buddhism, is currently widely used. Although the two abilities cultivated in GVM, awareness and equanimity, exhibit certain similarities with the mindfulness cultivated in mindfulness-based psychotherapies (MBTs), they are not major concerns in MBTs.
Zeng, Xianglong, Oei, Tian P. S., Ye, Yiqing, Liu, Xiangping   +3 more
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Vipassana Meditation: The Path to Better Servant-Leadership

International Journal of Servant-Leadership, 2011
Awareness is not a giver of solace-it is just the opposite. It is a disturber and an awakener. Able leaders are usually sharply awake and reasonably disturbed. They are not seekers after solace. They have their own inner serenity.
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Ein Hauch von Wissenschaftstheorie und Vipassana Meditation

2020
Yuval Noah Harari pladiert fur mehr Empathie im Umgang mit der Welt, den Menschen und uns selbst. Einen Weg, um Empathie entwickeln zu konnen, sieht er in der fokussierten, also bewussten Selbstwahrnehmung bzw. Selbstbeobachtung. Ein Freund schlug ihm vor, er, Harari, solle doch mal versuchen, einen Vipassana-Meditationkurs zu besuchen.
Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
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Vipassana Meditation and Its Reception in Vietnam

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
Currently, meditation in general and insight meditation (Vipassana) in particular is one of the very effective methods to help people find inner peace and stability in an unpredictable world. Due to this, they can see the meaning of life, letting go of ignorance to achieve the ultimate goal of liberating themselves from worldly suffering.
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Vipassana Meditation as an Effective Technique of Stress-Management

Indian Journal of Applied Research, 2011
The present research article is an endeavour to explore empirical supports for Vipassana meditation as an effective technique of stress management.Stress management refers to the wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's levels of stress, especially chronic stress, or distress as advocated by Hans Selye (1936;
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