Today I got angry.  Yes!  Just 13 days from 10 day retreat in silence.  And I had to use meditation to get to bottom of the anger.  (If you haven't read my previous article, I recently attended a Vipassana Meditation retreat, where I spent 10 days in silence meditating for 10 hrs a day, read the article here.)  When the anger crept up, the first thing I did was to stop it, but I really wanted to experience and ride the wave with it and I have to admit, I did for about 30 seconds.  But what I learned from 10 days in silence, and guys let me tell this was no party so I didn't want all...

I'm back and here to spread joy, love, peace and happiness!  I just spent 10 days in silence and meditating for 10 hrs a day at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Jesup, GA.  Vipassana meditation is a mind purification meditation so therefore no communication, entertainment or exercise or anything that brings the mind to outside of being in the moment and feeling the body’s sensations.  If you’ve never taken a Vipassana meditation course it is unlike any other practice of meditation.  Instead of just simply trying to quiet the mind, the purpose it to purify the mind by 1. Observing...