Before proceeding with the article, please clearly understand some disclaimers. First, the key reason behind writing this article is to spread awareness and educate people about Vipassana and the benefits I received from the ten day exercise. Since the ‘I’ clearly highlights my personal experience and benefit, there is a possibility that I may contradict others. Please take this article as a casual chat and receive what is relevant.

Second, do not sign up for the Vipassana course with an intention, goal, or expectation in mind. The moment you have a goal in mind, the goal takes over your mind and all technique is put aside. Go without a need in mind.

To be honest, I had a goal in mind. I experienced a series of failures for a year and quit a high paying job to take some competitive exams. I failed all the exams and I was broke [still am as I write this article!]. She wanted to seek refuge and nothing worked. Vipassana worked.

Let’s not waste time and jump to the purpose of the article.

1) It is Experiential, Not Intellectual – Vipassana is a practical technique. it is a tool. In the same way that you cannot learn to swim by reading or just listening, Vipassana is practiced. The center is the environment where you are taught and conditioned to learn the technique. There are regular audits and checks carried out by the teacher and the results are in sync with the efforts he invests. It is highly systematic, disciplined, and follows a clear algorithm. Don’t expect ‘spiritual superiority from the East and functional superiority from the West’; you will be amazed at the functional superiority of Vipassana.

2) Mind free of clutter: you sit down to study or write an article, or you want to finish some office work. You work for about ten minutes and start fooling around on the internet, watch some porn or chat on FB, play music, research some things that are irrelevant and phew! After an hour you realize you are still where you started. You feel sleepy because the energy of your mind has been consumed and you go to sleep, masturbate or continue chatting with a friend. And then sleep.

This way you end up wasting your life. Vipassana eliminates the plug habit. It sounds idealistic and too fast a result in ten days, but yes, it works.

3) Better control, better decision making, problem solving and very realistic: Vipassana makes your thought process very neutral, objective and less ‘charged with negative emotions’. This is the basic premise of the technique. Your reactions, and reactions to reactions, reactions and miseries derived from passions and failed companies are closed. The focus is on action and awareness – this makes every interaction amazing and life a joy ride.

Finally, it is not sectarian, it does not lean towards any religious preaching or school and it does not dictate that you give up worldly pleasures. [expect during the course; it’s your choice after you exit].

All courses are free and always will be.

I would like to keep it short and simple and conclude that everything I have listed above is enough to motivate anyone to sign up for the course. I am pasting a few lines from the first paragraph: Do not sign up for the Vipassana course with an intention, goal, or expectation in mind. The moment you have a goal in mind, the goal takes over your mind and all technique is put aside. Go without a need in mind.

You searched up to this article, now search up to the nearest Dhamma center. Be happy.