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“From the outset this came across as a desperate attempt to shoehorn Vipassana meditation into the box of “cult”. Attending a retreat costs nothing, it’s purely donation only - if you feel like paying for ten days’ accommodation and food. No one chats to you unless you speak to teachers, no one takes your details or asks you to come back. It’s a very anonymous process where you slip in and slip out, taking what you need or rejecting it if it serves no purpose. I’ve attended a ten-day sit and the website is very clear about the hours and what is required in terms of noble silence and handing in phones, books and writing materials at the start.
That Marriage only interviews 24 people over a year is barely representative of the average experience of a sitter. There are often 100 or more attendees at every retreat around the world.
Moreover the interviewees are all white westerners from Australia, the US, and Europe. Perhaps the later episodes will include people from India, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong or Malaysia but it doesn’t seem angled that way.
In any undertaking there will always be a tiny percentage who suffer injuries or mental health problems - but to try and suggest this is a dangerous cult is deeply disingenuous.”
Sophie28368 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
02/03/24
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“This is really really interesting and I believe a very necessary exploration of the dark side of meditation in excess such as is practiced in Vipassana retreats. Meditation can be a wonderful tool and practice but like every other practice it can be done to excess and in ways that are destructive...”Read full review »
VICTORIAMARYCLARKE via Apple Podcasts ·
Ireland ·
01/24/24
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“A potentially interesting topic. There is certainly a potentially negative side of meditation. But this is horribly biased journalism. Very biased language throughout to give a distorted one-sides perspective of these ‘retreats’.”
sean-og3 via Apple Podcasts ·
Ireland ·
01/31/24
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“I am on episode two. So far the stories are interesting.”
LittleSnowBits via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/18/24
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