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September 2023
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10 day silent meditation retreat in the jungle. Goenka vipassana, not a style that I really endorse but a very interesting and cool experience
Here → https://maps.app.goo.gl/ghrVaMCG1cohRqhF9
This was my bedroom. No devices, woken up my a bell in the morning. I had an ant problem for a while (literally hundreds in my bathroom), killed a fair amount of them (totally breaking a precept) before realising that it’s much more effective to live and let live (they weren’t biters or anything)
No eye contact the whole time - you’d eat your food (the food was actually awesome) facing the wall
The canteen where we’d all eat
I shaved my head on like day 7 because it felt like an awesome “new start” experience. And then I started tweeting, having an outlet for self expression for the first time really. I had never shaved my head before and had previously felt fairly attached to/vain about my hair (as I imagine we all do) so this felt really good to do. It was funny when we were allowed to talk again and the guys were like “uhh you had hair at the start right??”