Vipassana Films

Videos about Vipassana meditation

Films

Various films about Vipassana are now available. Below you will find a selection with links to the corresponding portals.

An introduction to Vipassana

Goenkaji answers some fundamental questions about Vipassana meditation and the science of mind and matter.

Available in English on: Vimeo

Practicing Vipassana

Students from around Europe discuss how they discovered meditation and how it has shaped their lives. Shot on location at Dhamma Atala in Italy.

Available in English on: Vimeo

Ten-day course overview

A very useful brief summary of how a residential course covers the three principal elements of Vipassana meditation.

Available in English on: Vimeo

UN Adress

Goenkaji’s address to the Millennium World Peace Summit in New York.

Available in English on: Vimeo

Time to breathe

A short documentary about British children learning Anapana as part of their school activities, giving their unique perspective on how it works.

Available in English on : Vimeo

Seeds of awareness

Schoolchildren’s experiences with Anapana meditation and the benefits both at home and in school.

Available in English on : Youtube

From Myanmar to the World - Part 1 - Overland to India

This 1-hour film follows some of the ten thousands of Westerners who travelled the world in the early 1970s "looking for something". It is the story of those hippies and seekers who discovered India, S.N. Goenka and the incomparable gift of the Dhamma. (65 min.)

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

From Myanmar to the World - Part 2 - From Caves to Pagodas

For a meditation tradition that claims to have nothing to do with organised religion, some questioned the seemingly religious architecture. But are the pagodas merely decorative, or do they have a practical function, something that meditators can actually experience and benefit from? (65 min.)

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Vimeo

Doing time Doing Vipassana (Doing Time - Time for Vipassana)

This documentary takes viewers inside India's largest prison, one of the toughest in the world, and documents the dramatic change that the introduction of Vipassana meditation has brought to both inmates and guards. (52 min.)

Available in English on: Pariyatti, dhamma.org, Vimeo

Changing from Inside

Documentary about the King County Correctional Facility, Seattle, Washington, USA - 1998 (44 min.)

Available in English at: dhamma.org

Breathe easy, Brick city

Anapana meditation for children and young people in socially deprived areas of Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Available in English on : Vimeo, Dhamma.org

The essential aspects of the Buddha-Dhamma for meditation practice.

Discourse by Sayagyi U Ba Khin for his foreign students who could not easily come to Myanmar.

Available in English on: dhamma.org, Youtube

The first pagoda in Europe

The wonderful new pagoda at Dhamma Padhana, the European Centre for Long Courses, is ready. It is the first European pagoda of this tradition. (3 min.)

Available in English on: Youtube.

Others videos on Dhamma.org

Others videos on Pariyatti

Talks

The following interesting and inspiring lectures introduce, among others, the teachers who have transmitted and passed on Vipassana. The lectures are available on various portals.

Ashoka

Life of Emporer Ashoka and the spread of Dhamma from India to Burma, leading to the Vipassana lineage of Teachers from Ledi Sayadaw to Sayagyi U Ba Khin and S.N. Goenka.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

Ledi Sayadaw

Life of Ven. Ledi Sayadaw (1846–1923), the first Vipassana teacher that we know of in this tradition in modern times.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

Saya Thegyi

Life of Saya Thetgyi (1873–1945), a critical link between the great monk Ven. Ledi Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin, in helping to establish a tradition of Vipassana householder teachers.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

Webu Sayadaw

Life of Webu Sayadaw (1896–1977), one of the most venerated monks in Burma, an arahant, who encouraged Sayagyi U Ba Khin to start teaching Vipassana meditation.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

Sayagyi U Ba Khin

Life of Sayagyi U Ba Khin (1899–1971) the foremost lay teacher of Vipassana meditation in Myanmar (Burma) and S.N. Goenka’s teacher. He had a strong conviction that "the time-clock of Vipassana has now struck" for the worldwide revival of the Buddha’s path to liberation.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

S.N. GOENKA - Part 1

Life of S.N. Goenka (1924–2013) – Part 1. S.N. Goenka’s early years: his childhood, his training under Sayagyi U Ba Khin and the establishment of Dhamma in India.

Available in English on: Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

S.N. GOENKA - Part 2

Life of S.N. Goenka (1924–2013) – Part 2: The spread of Dhamma and development of Vipassana meditation centres throughout the world, from 1979 to 1999.

Available in English on : Pariyatti, Youtube, Vimeo

S.N. GOENKA - Part 3

Life of S.N. Goenka (1924–2013) – Part 3: Goenka engaged in numerous activities and projects that show a deep gratitude to his teacher, Sayagyi U Ba Khin, and Myanmar (Burma) for the flowering of Dhamma worldwide.

Available in English on : Pariyatti, Youtube

This Living Tradition

2500 years after the passing of Gotama the Buddha, the practice of Vipassana meditation lives on because of all those who passed the Dhamma on from generation to generation–teacher to pupil. This talk looks at the challenges –the apparent difficulties, disasters, and dead-ends– that the tradition faced, and how often, after what appeared to be a disaster, Dhamma rose to the occasion and emerged more resilient, stronger, and more widely spread than ever before.

Available in English on : Pariyatti, Youtube