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from National Geographic Italy, December 2005, page 107, page 110

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To prove the adaptability of Buddhism, the same meditation technique that I follow has become the strength of an innovative program of prison reform that is taking place across India .
<< I'm not serving a sentence, I'm doing vipassana >> says the inmate Udegbe Hyginus. For four and a half years has been abducted in the Nigerian Hyginus Tihar prison complex in New Delhi, awaiting trial for possession of cocaine. And 'one of the largest prisons in Asia and is home to nearly 13 thousand detainees, more than double its capacity . Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions and a staff that at times overwhelms the prisoners by treating them in an inhumane way, make it a living hell .
But Hyginus and thousands of other Indian prisoners, the practice of vipassana turned the prison into an oasis of reflection and rehabilitation . In a section of the Prison No. 4, for a place of retreat, every two weeks a session takes place every ten days. Prisoners may be repeated every three months, and many do .

<< [...] After my first retreat here >> Says Hyginus, << I dropped the pressure, and I slept ten hours. I was irritable, and now I feel calm and peaceful as a dove. I'm much happier >>.

strikes me even more what he says a man who makes the jailer to Tihar for 14 years, and has made three withdrawals here, all volunteers. << I just wanted to prove that this person that I had heard about vipassana >> says. << Before going into retreat beat prisoners, the stress made me a monster. After, I felt more human >>. Now the prisoners turn to him for advice.

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<< We are all prisoners of our mind >> says the Burmese meditation teacher (and former businessman) Satya Narayan Goenka, octogenarian, promoter of the return of vipassana in India. << What better place to understand that here behind bars? >>. So, meditation group will meet regularly in prisons around the world. Studies show that these practices with the prisoners suffer less, and not inflict suffering on others.
<< I do not teach Buddhism >> says Goenka baritone voice when I visit him at his home in Mumbai. [...] << Vipassana means "seeing things as they really are." After holding his breath under observation for a few days, you begin to pay more attention to your feelings. And soon you realize to be haunted by the desire for food, heat, all sorts of desires, and aversion to unpleasant things. Then you realize that all this is transient. Everything changes. By understanding these simple things that every person, beginning with the Buddha, he finds himself, then follows a whole doctrine >>.

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