18/11/2025
It still feels unreal that it’s almost been a year since my first Vipassana course…
ten days of silence that broke me open in the most necessary way.⚡️
I walked out of that centre different.
Calmer.
Clearer.
Rewired.
And three words were pulsing through my body like a truth I could suddenly feel with every breath:
Anicca. Anatta. Dukkha.
Impermanence. No-self. The ache of clinging.
These weren’t just teachings —
they were revelations.
I could feel impermanence in my exhale.
I could feel the fluidity of “self” in the quiet between thoughts.
I could feel how suffering only tightened its grip when I did.
But something else arrived alongside them… a path forward:
Sīla. Samādhi. Paññā.
Ethics. Stillness. Wisdom.
If the first three cracked me open,
the second three rebuilt me.
Together they became the sentence that shaped the last year of my life:
Starve the ego (anicca, anatta, dukkha).
Feed the soul (sīla, samādhi, paññā).
Months later, I honoured that transformation the only way that felt right:
I etched these six teachings into my skin:
a reminder not of who I should be,
but of who I became when I finally stopped running.
And in January, I’ll be sitting another ten-day Vipassana.
No expectations.
Just curiosity about what truths will reveal themselves next.
Maybe these teachings will land somewhere in you too. 🖤
