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🪷 Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation 🪷

A gentle and effective way of practicing meditation based on the original teachings of the Buddha. It was revived and shared widely by Venerable Bhante Vimalaramsi, an American Buddhist monk who dedicated his life to studying the early suttas (discourses of the Buddha).

Unlike many meditation methods that focus only on concentration, TWIM combines Loving-kindness (mettā) and insight (vipassanā) together. This makes the practice balanced, natural, and joyful. The special method used in TWIM is called the 6Rs: Recognize, Release, Relax, Re-smile, Return, and Repeat. By using these gentle steps, one learns how to let go of distractions, relax tension in mind and body, and bring up a smiling, light mind that can clearly see reality.

TWIM is very useful because it does not push or force the mind. Instead, it develops loving-kindness (mettā) and other wholesome states, which naturally lead to calmness, wisdom, and happiness. Practitioners often find that stress, anxiety, anger, and restlessness reduce very quickly. It also improves relationships and daily life, because one learns to meet every situation with kindness and understanding.

The Buddha himself taught meditation as a path to end craving and suffering. TWIM follows this original path, using loving-kindness meditation to develop deep collectedness (jhana) and then using that calm mind to see the true nature of life: how everything arises and passes away due to causes and conditions.

The benefit of TWIM is very practical. A meditator feels lighter, more peaceful, and more compassionate day by day. With steady practice, one can progress toward Nibbana, the complete freedom from suffering, which was the final goal taught by the Buddha.

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मला ह्या मैत्री साधनेमध्ये येऊन खूपच शांतता वाटली, मन हलके झाले. येथील व्यवस्था फारच उत्तम होती. इथे मेडिटेशन हॉल मध्ये रोज सकाळी त्रिशरण व शील देऊन धम्मपद गाथेचे वाचन करण्यात येत असे, तसेच क्षमायाचना, पुण्यानुमोदन व प्रवचन घेण्यात येत असे. ह्या सर्वांचा मला ध्यानासाठी फार लाभ झाला.

आयुष्य सकारात्मकतेने, सजगतेने, प्रतिक्रिया न करता प्रतिसाद देणे, तसेच 6Rs चा वापर कसा करावा ह्या गोष्टी मला शिकायला मिळाल्या. मॅडमने घेतलेला योगाभ्यास तर मला खूप लाभदायक ठरला.

हा मैत्रीभावनेचा कोर्स म्हणजे माझं आयुष्य बदलवणारा अनुभव होता. ह्या साठी मी मंजुला भोसले मॅडमचे मनापासून आभार मानते.

-गंगोत्री धनसावंत

Translation of above testimonial

I felt a profound sense of peace and my mind felt lighter after joining this Metta meditation. The arrangements here were excellent. Every morning in the meditation hall, the session would begin with the Three Refuges (Trisharan) and Precepts (Shila), followed by the recitation of Dhammapada verses. Additionally, sessions on forgiveness, merit-sharing, and discourses (Dhamma talks) were conducted. All of these were very beneficial for my meditation practice.

I learned how to live life with positivity and mindfulness—responding instead of reacting—and how to apply the "6Rs". The yoga practice conducted by Ma'am was also extremely beneficial for me.

This Metta meditation course was a life-changing experience for me. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Manjula Bhosle Ma'am for this.

-Gangotri Dhansawant

Just completed this eight days course and returned home yesterday.

I had heard about Vipassana till today, but I heard about this course from my friend from 9th to 16th March and decided to go for at least two days. Now I know what I would have achieved in two days..?Really, everyone must do this course.. This is a very useful course for beginners. In eight days only by observing the movements of the mind, giving a sense of friendship there, a light smile, mastering the art of stopping those movements for a while and experiencing one's own mind free from thought and calm, the joy has been experienced in life... and this joy is beyond all the joys experienced so far. Realized that it is much more valuable than moments. Now I will try to keep this happiness forever by using this art of calming and alerting the mind forever.

My sincere thanks to Manjula madam because I have succeeded in raising my mind by very calmly giving solutions to whatever distractions I had in two days and doing the eight days course fully alert. And I returned home with an unlimited supply of positive energy.

-Supriya Kulkarni

A wonderful eight-day course of Samath Vipassana was completed. I also realized after Supriya's gratefully written post, I also want to express my gratitude. I got to learn important things that Panchsheel and Arya Ashtangik path are of unique importance in human life, I want to practice it daily.

I have become aware of the qualities and defects in myself, so of course I have started to cultivate the qualities and remove the defects. Manjula madam took this course single-handedly. I have taken their enthusiasm, energy and positivity and of course started using it. 🙏🙏

-Archana Joshi