All language subtitles for Experiences of Vipassana Meditators (English)

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my neighbor told me about this technique

and how wonderful it was and I said okay

yes but now I'm going in Mexico so I

cannot do it at the moment and I flew to

Mexico and after 3 days another person

came in contact to me and say you should

do vasana and that time was like what

what did you say be pass and again never

heard about this technique for 30 years

and now in two part opp Opposite in the

world I'm listening about this technique

so I came back and I did the course and

when he came out of the course I went to

collect him from the airport and I just

noticed such a a huge difference in his

face it was just he looked so calm so

happy so so much of the tension had gone

so I was really Keen to try this this

technique I it's something I didn't know

so it should give me a telephone number

the nearest one the nearest one is in

Italy I'm in Italian wonderful so I

called Italy and said I would like very

much and I'm very happy there the course

here in Italy close to my house Etc ET

was very happy so I called these people

they were very kind but they said no way

it's fully booked for another three

months so if you want to make a course

right now impossible sorry I had just

left Romania after a really difficult

time uh under the dictatorship the

revolution came I had so many things

which I wasn't clear about or which were

not really clear for me um then I

discovered the world um and then

suddenly the Passa came into my life and

everything shifted so I try in

Switzerland I try in France fully booked

I try in Spain fully booked I try in

England fully booked I expected

something completely different I was uh

I expected something more uh relaxative

and it was a bit difficult for me

because uh I went through time before

and now I'm I'm finding myself in a

situation where again I have to go to

quite a hard time uh I decided to you

know to stick to the 10 days and see and

work um seriously and then see what

comes out and I was totally surprised in

the end what what what what came out you

know like it's like a new beginning for

my life huge amount of emotional ups and

downs it was a roller coaster it was it

was it was difficult but uh you know

tough going but very very beneficial at

the

end I really really wanted to work hard

and and to get the best results I could

out of the 10 days I had there and to

try and come out of this suffering that

I was

creating and uh at the end of the course

having worked really hard I just I saw

David because he'd served my course my

partner and I just felt so full of joy I

was just crying because I just felt so

much lighter as you know you look and

you say things but you never do it

and so at the end of the year my wife

gave a present on Christmas and um that

was a card on which was written you have

10 days of leave from your company and

family life to do this course and so it

started it took me nine months because I

said I cannot leave my company it will

be a chaos if I leave but um it meant

all okay she took care I'm happy with it

I was not really looking for meditation

or whatever

um but when I um had to flyer I

immediately uh s this gives me a tool to

help myself rather than be depending on

others so I called Belgium and they said

oh you just lucky because yesterday

there was a cancellation so there's one

Place free but you know the CSE is

starting tomorrow it's no problem I'm

just in the car and will'll be there

tomorrow morning so I left my wife and

said kiss goodbye she said I'm

completely crazy and I left I went there

and I made the course and my life change

because you know since that moment

everything was absolutely different so

much came up that seemed

to feel as though I'd released a lot of

uh very difficult emotional

um stuff that have been going on in in

my mind in my life uh previously so it

just felt clearer everything felt

clearer

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f i find V Pas gives me gives me so much

space like a real breathing space

between between uh the difficult

situation and and then how to how to

solve the problem for myself I just

noticed how um I've got more energy um I

get more

done than I ever used to I'm I've

stopped worrying about things I think I

used to be a real Warrior many years ago

and I've just realized actually there's

no point when you start to react

emotionally that boxs your ability to

work through it observing it at the

level of sensation observing your

emotions as Sensations observing your

mind as

Sensations it's bypassing that you're

not getting caught up in it you're

observing it the atmosphere around you

becomes more positive so the reactions

become more positive and yeah if

everybody is more positive then I think

it's it's influences the

world I was living in a foreign country

in Germany so whatever I was projecting

there was just really my projection that

I thought people thought I would be like

this and this because I come from

Romania and then I realized if I

approached them differently I was

getting different reactions and new

reactions and I just realized it was all

inside me so it wasn't really all

outside there was no way for me to

understand what I wanted did I want a a

relationship with a girl or not with

which one so it was very

imbalanced

and of course after the first courses I

understood the importance of Sheila and

the importance of having um a balanced

emotional

life it took me very few years to

understand that I wanted to have

children and I I must say that now

children my family and dhama are the two

most important thing this uh immense uh

use of of drugs you know alcohol

drinking and and stuff I I found a way

to to yeah to get rid of it and to

reduce it slowly by slowly and now I

stopped it completely and um this is not

so easy but with the vasana meditation

it was a a chance you know to um yeah to

join a new way of life you know I used

to find it really difficult getting up

in the morning but I don't now I find it

I'm up early just about every morning

and it's not a problem at

all vision

I'm much more productive at work and

that means I think that I just that my

time out of work is much much better as

well just much more fun um and my

relationships are better and my

relationships with my family um have

really improved the passer really helps

me to open my eyes and not not to

react um with ignorance in the moment

but just to have a much clearer idea of

the situation and to suffer Less in the

in the situation because I'm not craving

for something I don't have or or really

having aversion towards what I don't

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you're not so so focused on yourself

anymore I think that's the main that's

what I noticed I don't know how that's

for for the others outside but for me

it's really that um yeah you're not the

center of the world anymore and you try

to be open for others I started this new

career when I came back to Romania and I

used to be very nervous so uh being

aware of my my being nervous when

talking to a lot of people has helped me

a lot and it has also helped me to uh

overcome a lot of barriers in

communicating and I think communicating

is essential in my job you know how

business is very often that you do

things which are maybe not completely

right so um in my company I will I want

and I want from everybody a honest way

of operation yeah sometimes I'll go to a

sitting feeling very um agitated or

there's been some some problem going on

or something and quite often once I've

sat or even during the time that I'm

sitting you know a solution will come

into my head and then I gave to the co

to the people working in my

company the possibility for them to take

10 days

paid so they don't have to take a

holiday for doing a course if they want

I think that um having a good uh moral

Foundation um is really essential and um

this is also weak point point in all

these uh I think in all these

ex-communist countries um people have

made uh of cheating and of of maybe even

stealing or of lying a way of resisting

a dictatorship so without realizing that

they are really harming themselves so

having a um a strong foundation in um in

Morality uh is really helpful and beiz B

based on this the purifying the mind

which is what the technique is about is

very very closely linked to what I do in

my sculpture it's about I'm I'm looking

searching if you like for that purity of

form uh and so it's very closely linked

uh I bring it into my work more and more

and I find it's helped enormously

because um I'm able to for me to be able

to find this Clarity of form which I'm

looking

for uh but I'm also able to do it with a

sense of love and peace which I hope

comes through my work because that's so

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important that is a real fortunate

person and I'm happy for him if you have

um also questions related to the

technique and to the whole setup don't

hesitate to actually get in contact with

the organization I think the first doubt

would be that this might be a sect um

and I would definitely tell them that uh

it is nothing sectarian and it's nothing

to do with conversion or with any kind

of religion it's open for uh for anybody

as we're working with universal things I

didn't change my point of view on a

religious field on a philosophical field

on a political field I didn't change on

that level what changed was

my uh capacity of thinking and leing and

behaving I was in in the same way but I

was just more balanced so I wish this

could happen to anybody else I mean you

should be always you know um critical uh

toward what's happening you can ask

questions you can you can ask everything

and and you know you don't you don't

need to worry just before uh the course

of I don't know two weeks or one week

before I called us son I said actually I

feel a little bit funny and I don't know

if I should be doing that and if it's

the right moment and yeah these people

there they listen to me and it was just

um they were calming me there's nothing

strange about this technique at all it's

just a very it's very very

straightforward and that's one of the

things that attracted me I think once

I'd sort of begun the practice was that

it's it's not it's not about any

particular religion

um and it's not it's not for people from

any particular part of society it's and

it's it's really it's just it's for

ordinary people actually um which is

what I really like about it and it's

just and and the actual practice makes

complete sense if you want to sit for 10

days um then it is doable I'm quite a

chatty talkative person so first I

thought God am I going to be able to to

shut up to be quiet for 10 days and it

was no problem at all

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just just try it uh and see if it's

something for

you certainly this technique will help

you

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enormously come with your fear but come

with confidence and then everything will

be fine

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