Vipassana Meditation

Hi great people! HOW ARE YOU ALL??
I am back to share VIPASSANA with you :))
I know I have never shared my first Vipassana experience with all of you here in public, because having had it so profound words were not able to describe it. The purification of mind I've had done going through past experiences of my life, the one I have suffered the most, the most traumatic, the one full of sadness and misery, or the anger, so getting out all the attached feelings to all made me feel at the end of the course like the past doesn't exist, and the future either, that the only what is left is NOW - the present moment. That's why, having had that strong purity of mind I wasn't able to share what has happened during those 10 days of silence and long hours of meditation. Now, I feel like before writting about my recent Vipassana 10 day sitting course I should give brief explanation of the first one that I have taken in Switzerland in March 2015 @ Dhamma Sumeru, Mount Soleil. But it will be only a brief of it - it was a time when I have let go of all the anger and sadness settled in me, or rather I should say something pushed it out! I will always remember day 4 of that course, and how incredibly lighter I felt.... Yes, sometimes we are not aware of the cumulation of tangled emotions we might carrying inside. I certainly weren't. Even I wasn't able to connected it with any particular past situation of my life at that time, so I just tough it must be related to recent relationship difficulties I went through !!! Anyway, it didn't matter that much anymore because I felt profoundly its all gone... I felt so LIGHT, PURE & HAPPY !!!
Doing Vipassana service @ Dhamma Sukhada, Brandsen, Argentina in November last year I was fortunate as we were given one day & a half to sit I got the day 4 - the day when Vipassana teaching is given to new students. And that day I got the answer I wasn't even looking for, the understanding what's my tangled emotions that I got rid of where related to!!! I got it so clearly - it's like the unconscious mind talks to you. It gives you explanation and you just get it and there are no doubts!!!!
I know things I am writing about might sound so impossible to happen, but I have had experienced them right there doing Vipassana.
Talking about my recent experience - honestly this time knowing what's sitting 10 day course is about and what I have had experienced during the first one I had some expectations. I though it will take me back to my past life situations deeper than the first time, but it didn't... That's what I realised I like about Vipassana - it just simply surprises you !!!! This time I got beautiful teaching about LOVE! :)) - based on last few months of my life that my monkey mind was heading back to like crazy ...

Here in Australia, in Walker Flats @ Ankara Non Centre Camp the Vipassana experience wasn't easy one. More unbalanced mind, less strong noble silence, different energy... Although again day 4 when the Vipassana was given is a significant one. Once the teaching ended (meditators have to sit still those 2 hours of being guided how to practise Vipassana) just after Goenka's words 'take rest' my face smiled & the feeling of incredible amount of love and happiness and compassion exploded from my heart. Insane! That happiness on my face, that real true smile, love and all what's around me so beautiful. I can't describe it, but I understood what Josh meant telling me about his powerful Vipassana experience. I got it! This time having being given Vipassana teaching for the 3rd time I understood its power because of my own experience. I understood what's real pure love, what's real pure happiness, how powerful it is, how profoundly possible it is to feel it!!! And from that day the mind was giving me interesting full of ups & downs days with lessons on LOVE !!! All finished with beautiful conclusion. LOVE doesn't hurt us, doesn't make us suffer, is beautiful in its purity.
Feeling Love that day 4 I understood that it doesn't last forever either. Its dissolving, disappearing - I remember my feeling of sadness seeing the LOVE getting to its end. But I understood as well that nothing lasts forever!!! Everything is constantly changing and is impermanent. Same like our life. We are born to die. None can stop it, none can change it. Same is with Love - non can make others to love us forever or to love us back,,,
I understood as well that THE LOVE I experienced day 4 via Vipassana does exist in real life. It REALLY can happen. I experienced it not long ago in South America. I understood that the connection between us has nothing to do with the Buddhism believe in reincarnation and reconnection with the other half in next lives. It was love that we shared. Because it was PURE LOVE without attachments, without craving, without possessiveness it was the most beautiful I have ever experienced. One more conclusion - I would never said we fallen in love with each other. We simply SHARED LOVE!!! That's why its been such beautiful experience. Simply in that particular moment our life journeys we shared equally love we have in our hearts.. It didn't hurt us because Love doesn't hurt!!! Once our paths split the only what was left was happiness, joy of the experience, bliss.
So how come people suffer being in relationships?? How come they end up relations with such drama, misery, anger, hate ??? Simple - because they hurt themselves !!! Because they don't understand the low of nature, that nothing last forever, that all is changing, all have its end and because of wanting, craving for sensations that love gives them, sometimes its the sexual sensations instead of accepting thing as they are.
Vipassana teaches how not to crave not to generate aversion and having balanced mind live life happily. What's the most important in our precious life then? BALANCED MIND !!! :)) That's the most important conclusion I have achieved from the last course.

Next week I am flying to Burma to attend one more course there. Burma is a place where Vipassana was born. Looking forward to that experience.

May all you be fortunate to experience pure love, pure happiness... May all you be happy, be balanced, be free....

I am profoundly grateful for the wisdom Vipassana has brought to my life. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


by Sywia Gac,
16/4/2016 Australia