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Karuna Films LTD · 689.2K views · 2013-10-08 · 52:33

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A documentary about Vipassana meditation in India's Tihar Prison, led by Kiran Bedi, the prison's Inspector General. It follows inmates who went through the courses and the changes they describe.

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Cited as evidence that meditation can work as prison reform.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2020

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slipperyp · 2018-04 · Recommendation

There is more information on the method from this documentary Doing Time, Doing Vipassana: [VIDEO] It documents the use of Vipassana as a reform measure at a harsh prison in India and traces the impacts it had on some of the inmates there.

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vekker · 2020-03 · Reference

Sounds like hell, the way he describes it. However, if you'd take those hellish elements away & ensure silence, I think long solitary confinement might work if you teach people how to meditate. That's just not being done enough in prisons right now. See "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana" [VIDEO] EDIT: I know this is probably a controversial opinion to non-meditators, but if you're going to downvote, at least provide an argument for why you don't agree.

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abledon · 2019-01 · Reference

mandatory meditation: [VIDEO] for someone to just 'sit' and think about their thoughts for 10 days straight without talking, is HELL for a criminal. they are forced to confront reality, or at least their subjective version of it.

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