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Title: naive people like me beware!
Review: This book is a very good book. When I read it, I thought it was the best one I had read on Buddhism and I decided to take a 10 days course. The experience was challenging but the big disappointment came afterwards when I applied for a second course and was told that hypnotherapists were prohibited by Goenka to take more than one course. I would have to give up my profession as well as my Zen meditation practice to carry on. In other words, there is a big discrepancy between what is written here and what is really practiced. I now think that this Vipassana group is just a cult around the person of Goenka, his prejudices and his hypnotic chanting, which has in fact little relevance to the teaching of the Buddha. Real Vipassana meditation described in the sutra is not hypnotic at all and much more complicated than the all body sweeping meditation, with eyes closed in a dark room which is presented as the only authentic practice.
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