Goenka

The quiet hell of extreme meditation

Michael Finkel, Men's Journal Magazine: These are my final words: "Why a camp chair?" I speak them to a man…

August 24, 2012

Transcendental billionaire

Naazneen Karmali, Forbes: Every day busloads of tourists arrive in Gorai, a seafront suburb of Mumbai, and head to Esselworld…

March 7, 2012

Life on a 10-day ‘Buddhist boot camp’ in the Himalayas

Matthew Green, Financial Times: The guru looked troubled. A spry 75-year-old, who could have passed for 60, he usually wore…

January 6, 2012

Ten days without talking

Was it possible to survive 10 days of meditating in an Indian retreat without speaking, reading or making eye-contact with…

March 10, 2011

Hospital to become a meditation centre

The Whitwell House Day Hospital in Saxon Road, Saxmundham [Suffolk, England], used to look after mental health patients but closed…

August 29, 2010

Interview with SN Goenka

SN Goenka is the leading teacher of vipassana, a popular Buddhist meditation technique. He was born in Burma to Indian…

July 5, 2010

Take a journey of noble silence

Buddha taught Vipassana for free to all who cared to practise it 2,500 years ago. Today, the Alberta Vipassana Foundation…

June 20, 2010

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.”

To many people, the word "mindfulness" excludes the imagination, but, as Bodhipaksa explains, there are powerful insight practices that involve…

April 19, 2010

Zen and success at work

London Evening Standard: If you have ever watched Tiger Woods play golf, you know the look. Brim pulled down over…

October 5, 2009

Kiran Bedi’s You be the sky: From criminality to humanity (Delhi Newsline)

The documentary, You Be The Sky, Kiran Bedi's initiative to highlight the vitality of meditation and humane management in prison…

September 10, 2004