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After my UN job, after seeing so much shit, I was extremely fed up with society and the world as we know it, so I decided to go to an Ashram, and live there for 10 days.
It was hard at first, no weed, no phones, not a whole lot of speaking. Meditation from sun up, to sun dawn, in my little meditation cell, and then in groups.
I think of those 10 days a lot. It taught me a lot of things, mostly about not being able to control the outer, but the inner. I really want to go back and do a Vipassana again, feeling similar emotions coming back to me, but I'm not sure if I can do another 10 days without my phone or internet because of this place/ you guys.
Thank you for reading this far, my love, reverence, and appreciation for you goes down a lot. 17 replies
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oh man.. what an excellent question.
Day 1 was hard because my monkey brain was moving around,
Day 2-3 I got used to it and I was okay with eating rice and fruit and what not
Fast forward to Day 5, I was like, I need my PHONE
Day 6, I sat down and meditated on my pillow- outside - and that pillow was one of my only possessions at the time, nothing else, I had surrendered everything including wallet and backpack and what not
and to my surprise, it was a full blown acid trip, like fractals, seeing the timefork, seeing everyone I loved, and interacted with, and I was like WOW if this is what the next 4 days are going to be, this is beyond epic. I can do this forever. So good.
And then THE NEXT DAY, WHAM. I was hit with random thoughts, everything happening at once, my knee twitching, and then I went to the teacher and I was like yo what happened? I Wanted to be full acid trip on there from yesterday on,
He put up his finger, and said "That, my child is to teach you not everyday will be the same" 2 replies
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