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Things I’ve Learned From Doing a Ten-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat

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Image: Keegan Houser on Unsplash I spent weeks and even months after doing a  silent meditation retreat trying to put the experience and anything I learned from it into words. The results were a load of half-finished drafts of Buzz Feed-style “Top 5 Things a Meditation Retreat Teaches You” articles, never published as I never…

What It’s Like to Do a Ten-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal “All right, brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you, but let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.” Homer Simpson “It’s a DEAL!” Homer Simpson’s brain I’d just arrived…