I got an opportunity to facilitate the 2-day workshop "Mindfulness on the go" for folks from Agastya International Foundation at the scenic campus in Kuppam on June 8-9, 2017. Here are a few pictures from the workshop. We had four long silent sitting sessions (between 30 minutes to 1 hour duration). Unfortunately, we don't any photo from these silent sittings because everybody had kept their phones away. We also had a silent walk around the campus on the evening of day-1 led by Mr. Nitin Desai.
We used following movies to illustrate the concepts, tools, practice / investigation process:
We used following movies to illustrate the concepts, tools, practice / investigation process:
- Queen, Dil Chahta Hai, A beautiful mind, Sholay, Penn & Teller: Fool Us magic show
Some of the questions that got raised and discussed during the workshop are:
- Why do we need to meditate?
- How to control thoughts?
- Is meditation connected with any religion / sect?
- What is the difference between meditation, concentration and silent sitting?
- How to differentiate between useful and wasteful thoughts?
- What is the relationship between meditation and god?
- How is this connected with enlightenment?
- Isn't fear necessary for achieving our goals?
Photo credit: Subbu Shastri, Gauri Dabholkar
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