“Meditation,” according to the early 20th-century scribe, James Allen, “is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.” It is a secret that has spanned cultures and millennia –maybe even
pre-dating civilisation itself.
The reality, after completing a 10-day course at the Dhamma Medini Vipassana Meditation Centre, is that it was not what I imagined, it was more. Deeply profound and shapeshifting in mysterious ways. The technique is taught by Mr Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a respected 20th-century authority on the practice.