13 Basic Guidelines for Intensive Vipassana Meditation
- There is only one task to be done by the meditators, i.e, to practise with:
- respect and sincerity
- diligence
- heroic effort
- perseverance
- patience
- sustained continuous, moment-to-moment mindfulness from the time of waking up in the morning to the time of falling asleep at night.
- Meditators should do formal sitting and walking meditation.
- Meditators should keep alone and observe silence. Socialising is not encouraged at all.
- Meditators must refrain from talking.
- Meditators must keep reading and writing to an absolute minimum.
- Smoking is not allowed.
- Sleep should be limited complying to the program to improve meditation.
- Meditators must strictly adhere to the meditation teacher’s instructions and should not practise according to other meditation methods.
- Meditators must not get involved in any activities not related to intensive meditation, (e.g. listening to the radio or tapes, taking massage, taking photographs, collecting books, performing acupuncture, receiving visitors, cooking food, learning Burmese, English, Pali, engaging in political, business and social affairs.)
- Meditators must restrain their senses. They should act like a blind, deaf and dumb person.
- Meditators must perform all activities in slow motion like a sick person.
- There is no space for thinking, reflection, speculation, analyzing, or interpretations during intensive practice.
- Generally meditation is for people with a normal and stable mind. If a person is mentally not in shape to do intensive meditation practice, especially to conform to the strict discipline, then that person may not be admitted as a yogi.
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