What It’s Like to Do a Ten-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal

I’d just arrived at the Dhammaddica Vipassana meditation centre in rural Chiba, Japan, about an hour-and-a-half south-east of Tokyo and the first of my assumptions as to what a Vipassana meditation retreat entails were proven incorrect, as most assumptions…