I’ve just completed my 2nd Vipassana 10 day silent meditation course near Quezon City, Philippines. I talk about the experience and what I have got out of it.
I meet up with Nelson, a Filipino/Japanese writer who shows me Rizal Park and tells me about national hero, Jose Rizal. Rizal wrote two books which helped inspire to the revolution against the Spanish colonists. I’m going to be off the map for 10 days doing a Vipassana silent meditation. fcp X vibrancy filter
Only 16 kms from Santiago de Compostela, after 34 days of walking, and a night of food poisoning and a symphony of snoring, Mark sums up his camino pilgrimage. He has learnt that walking can be a meditative experience, but feels the busy final stage of the camino is essential for people to re enter […]
Many pilgrims come up with metaphors to explain their experiences on the camino. On an 18.5 kms stretch between towns on the Meseta, Mark feels the need to walk alone and think about his experiences. He finds the camino has given him an opportunity to learn to live in the moment.
Do people have the same experiences on the Camino? Mark has a meditative experience and was surprised to hear from another pilgrim, they had the very same experience, on the very same day. Mark read ‘The Pilgrimage’ by Paulo Coelho before walking the camino. He discusses how his camino experience is very different from that […]
