{"id":383,"date":"2013-11-15T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/doing-time-doing-vipassana.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T22:07:14","slug":"doing-time-doing-vipassana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/doing-time-doing-vipassana.html","title":{"rendered":"Doing Time, Doing Vipassana"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gc4SqW4Hq4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this 52 minute documentary, \u00a0prisoners in one of India\u2019s most notorious prisons use an ancient <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist meditation<\/a> technique, called Vipassana, to quiet their nerves and improve their behavior. It was so successful when it was first introduced in 1997 that authorities expanded the program the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Vipassana meditation is a little like Zen, though not identical. Practitioners focus their attention on their breath which helps them to develop control over the \u201cunruly mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I usually show parts of it to my religion classes when we study Buddhism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 52 minute documentary, \u00a0prisoners in one of India\u2019s most notorious prisons use an ancient Buddhist meditation technique, called Vipassana, to quiet their nerves and improve their behavior. It was so successful when it was first introduced in 1997 that authorities expanded the program the next year. 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