YTT Rischkesh India

Life is like a game of cards.

The hand that is dealt you is determinism;

The way you play it is free will.

– Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1889-1964)

 

krishna cottage

anatomy class

Ganges beach

dhamma salila

Dehradun Vipassana Centre
Dhamma SalilaDehradun, Uttarakhand Pradesh, India

   Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka
in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin

There is a teacher within,

waiting to come out,

waiting for silence

THE COURSE TIMETABLE

The following timetable for the course has been designed to maintain the continuity of practice. For best results students are advised to follow it as closely as possible.

4:00 am		Morning wake-up bell
4:30-6:30 am		Meditate in the hall or in your room
6:30-8:00 am		Breakfast break
8:00-9:00 am		Group meditation in the hall
9:00-11:00 am		Meditate in the hall or in your room according to the teacher's instructions
11:00-12:00 noon		Lunch break
12noon-1:00 pm		Rest and interviews with the teacher
1:00-2:30 pm		Meditate in the hall or in your room
2:30-3:30 pm		Group meditation in the hall
3:30-5:00 pm		Meditate in the hall or in your own room according to the teacher's instructions
5:00-6:00 pm		Tea break
6:00-7:00 pm		Group meditation in the hall
7:00-8:15 pm		Teacher's Discourse in the hall
8:15-9:00 pm		Group meditation in the hall
9:00-9:30 pm		Question time in the hall
9:30 pm		Retire to your own room--Lights out

meditation hall

Sometimes it feels like Vipassana grabs me by the hair and pulls me to my cushion forcing me to sit.

sleeping quarters

"Ive learned from meditation how long, difficult, demanding, and very painful it is to face reality, to break old molds."

dhamma sisters

 

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What I brought

Inida Packing List

1 backpack 40liters

Passport 

 Air tickets

Clothes

1 pink sweater
1 Purple marino Smartwool legging bottoms
1 pair grey yoga pants
3 tee shirts
3 pairs of panties
1 pink sweater
1 Purple marino Smartwool legging bottoms
3 tee shirts
3 pairs of panties

Outerwear

1 used NF black insulated jacket
3 pairs of Smartwool socks
1 Patagonia black rain-jacket
1 Patagonia black rain-pants (newish)
1 very worn, pink wool hat
1 pair of wool gloves

Shoes

1 pair of smelly, grey, and purple KSO Vibrem 5 fingers
1 pair of beige La Sportiva hiking shoes

Necessities

1 REI orange quick dri packable towel

1 Steri-pen Adventurer

   prefilter and extra batteries

1 container of iodine tablets
1 bottle of Internal Parisite Formula (very useful!)
1 Princeton Tec Headlamp 
 extra batteries (very useful!)
1 pair of sunglasses (very useful!)
1 purple thermarest seat (very useful!)
1 REI Kilo Flash 35 down sleepingbag

Toiletries

1 lush shampoo bar
1 conditioned bar
3 toothbrushes
Floss
Wet wipes
TP
Vitimens
Diva Cup
tweezers

Electronics

1 new, very small gateway computer and cord
1 pink cannon camera and charger
1 ifone and cord
Portable Speakers

1 pink, Eagle Creek travel money belt

Book

Journal

Datebook

Translation book

Letter from mom

complex middle

New Dehli Airport

Dehra Dun, India

"Vibrations of peace and harmony,

Just like sound and light,

Already exist"

Dehra Dun

Chapatti

"Afoot and lighthearted, I take to the open road.

Healthy, free, the whole world before me.

The long brown path winding wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not for good fortune,

I myself am good fortune..............

For now I see the makings of the best persons.

It is to grow in open air, to eat and sleep with the Earth.

The whole world is an open road."

-Walt Whitman

as promised

Vegan, GF, Soy Free Pumpkin, Banana, Oat Dessart

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 mushy nanners
• 1/2 can pumpkin
• 1 1/2 cups dry out flour (grind in food processor)
• 2 1/2 cups cooked oats
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup rice milk
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
• pinch of nutmeg

1. Oven 400
2. Hand blend or process rice milk, and cooked oats (little bit at a time)
3. Mash nanners, sugar, pumpkin, lemon juice, vanilla
4. Combine wet oats and nanner mix
5. In seperate bowl mix oat flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg
6. Combine dry oat mix with wet oat mix (this may take a bit of force and patience with a sturdy wooden spoon)
7. Taste batter to make sure it is to your liking. (Add more oats if mixture is too "soupy")
8. Pour batter in greased glass cassarole dish
9. Bake 50-60 minutes

Pakasa Lemon Rice for 8
2 cups White Rice cooked

1/4 cup Grated coconut 1 minced Jalapeno 3/4 Tbs Grated Ginger  3/4 Tbs Minced Garlic 3/4 Bunch Chopped Cilantro 1.5 cup peas 1/8 cup Oil 1.5 tsp Brown Mustard Seeds 1 tsp Tumeric 1/8th cup Lemon juice 1/3 cup Peanuts
1. Prep coconut paste; Finly mince and mix garlic, ginger, jalopenos. Add coconut
2. Heat mustard seeds and oil in frying pan
3. Add tumeric and coconut paste, stir 5 minutes
4. Add lemon juice, peas, rice, and salt
5. Mix and cook for 5 minutes
6. Stir in cilantro and peanuts
7. Enjoy