Monday, September 14, 2009

The Dhamma Brothers

More like a documentary then a story, and thus the show was a more factual ones.

The setting is in the Alabama prison where it mostly houses state criminals and mainly criminals facing life imprisonment. And of cause it is the den of many angry people. The pyschiatrist tried to use Vipassana in hope to help the inmates. It was a challenging idea as it is about infringement of religious interest in a state where most citizen is christians.

But after the 10 day Vipassana retreat in the prison, the inmates learnt how to control their emotions and brought peace back to their mind. Even after several years, these group of inmates that joined the retreat still practices meditation on their own.And because of their good conducts, some where even transfered to normal prisons.

It is so delighting that people found peace and most importantly themselves by practising meditation. The prowess of meditation could even tame the hardest to tame in a gentle loving way. I was not surprise with the positive efficacyt of the teachings of the Buddha but rather to be beneficial also to people that has done grave mistakes and condemned by the world.

The power of meditation calms the mind and makes one sees themselves and their problems actively.

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