KINE 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anapanasati, Mantra, Impermanence

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 4370
• Professor: Noah Wayne

Document Summary

Meditation is not an escape it is a way to encounter the world so that we can understand it and ourselves. Exploring the here-and-now of our ourselves will allow us to explore the world. Vipassana (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)insight(cid:863) i(cid:374) the pali language of india. It is taught in 10 day courses during which you have no contact with the outside world. The only communication during the first 9 days is meditation problems with the teacher or material problems with the management. Participants must follow a morality code which includes celibacy and abstinence from intoxicants. Days 1 3 are mental concentration practice. Days 5-9: further steps in the practice are taught. Day 10: start to return to an extroverted way of life silence ends. Initial difficulties of the practice pass away and it eventually becomes effortless. We must observe reality from every angle not just the positive, as is often the case when we look at ourselves.