Dear Diary,
Best day yet! And the end is so close now.
Beer craving is still holding strong, so enlightenment might be a while off yet. I'm pretty sure I'm going to break at least 3 of the core precepts the day I leave this place.
My back pain hasn't disappeared completely, but it's much much more manageable. Unless I'm concentrating on my back, I never even think about it or notice it now.
Noble Silence ends tomorrow at 10am. We still have a full day's meditation, but we're allowed to talk while we're not in sessions. It's our "shock absorber" before we get back into the real world, says Goenka.
Even though it's been a tough 9 days, it's been wonderful to not have to fend for myself for a while. No hunting for accommodation, no haggling over rickshaw fares and no dirty restaurants. We're pretty well looked after here.
And I haven't mentioned this yet, but it's all totally free. It's run entirely on donations from past students and it's stressed that you should only ever donate if you feel you got something from the course; if you didn't get anything, you shouldn't give anything. Crazy!
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