Vipasana Gyan

Question. Krishnamurty did not believe in a technique or gurus. I believe you met him, did you discuss this? Answer by S. N. Goenka:   Certainly, I met him. He was a very saintly person, and I very much understood why he is against technique and why he is against gurus. Because he observed the situation all over the country where gurus just exploit the people saying "Look I am your guru and you are my disciple, you are so weak, how can you liberate yourself ? Just surrender to me and I will liberate you. I will liberate you." This is exploitation by gurus, this is against Dhamma and when you talk of technique that means you have got one object and you are just working with one object. It does not take you to the final goal. Things are changing from moment to moment you are observing, you are observing. (This is Vipassana, this is not a technique, Vipassana is not a technique, it is a process of observation.) So I discussed with him "Well in age you a...

      An Interview with S.N. Goenka by Alan AtKisson (Part 1) Introduction: I can’t tell you anything about what vipassana meditation feels like, because i’ve never done it. But while definitions are tricky, what we call “spirituality”—the reaching of human awareness and conduct toward “that truth which passeth all understanding”—seems basic to meeting the enormous challenges of our times. Which is why i accepted an invitation to interview s. N. Goenka during his 1992 visit to the seattle area, where i was living at the time. Goenka—a leading teacher of the ancient vipassana meditation technique—is not spiritual “leader” in the sense one usually means by the term, for he has no “followers. ” he would likely prefer to be described as a scientist who researches the relationship of mind, body, and matter via insight meditation, and teaches others how to do the same—directly, for themselves. A former wealthy industrialist, born in burma to parents of indian de-scent, g...