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Starting 2019 with ten days vipassana

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                    As some of you might know, I’ve started this year attending my first vipassana retreat in the South of Thailand. It has been a really insightful time for me and I feel like, Life willing, this will be the first but not the last.  The place where I attended the vipassana was called Suan Mokkh International Dharma Hermitage . The name “Suan Mokkh” is translated from Thai language as “ The garden of liberation ” and I can corroborate that the name really makes justice to the place…Why?  Well, check my story down this post ( “When Silence is the Best Answer” ) or  check my video above and judge for yourself . It was really interesting to take a dip into Buddhism wisdom, which has a lot of parallelisms with yoga philosophy. One of the lakes at Suan Mokkh.   We often think about meditation and yoga as two different things but actually, meditation and yoga are, at its core, the very same thing . The purpose (if we can say there is a purpose, which I doubt) of