Daniel Ingram

[desertrain]

Daniel Ingram is a guy who got enlightened in the Buddhist tradition by doing intense amounts of vipassana meditation. He is promoting what we could call a technical approach to awakening, since there is a practice to do which produces certain predictable results, mapped out in the so called Progress of Insight. He has written an excellent book called Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, which is available as a free download on his site along with instructions for insight meditation and the progress of insight map.

If you're the kind of person who wants to see clear results from their practice and to know where you're currently at, you should check this guy out.

On another note, if you want see how this kind of hardcore progress and doing-oriented approach goes together with the advaitan practices of self-inquiry and surrender, check out Kenneth Folk and his so called Three Speed Transmission
here.

[lobo]

Hello desertrain,
Do you follow his teachings?

I have heard that his teaching on vipassana is good.
I did look at his free book on line once, and it seemed like every sentence started with "I". That is certainly an exaggeration, but there was a tremendous amount of ego there. But that doesn't say his teaching on vipassana is not very good. It may be.

I guess I really believe this because I have said it before recently. One can learn valuable stuff from unenlightened people who are good at something.

[desertrain]

Hi Burt,

I started to do some vipassana after having stumbled upon the book recently. I looked at it before a couple of years ago, didn't do anything for me back then. Now I'll try vipassana to see if it yields any of the promised insights. It's nice to have some kind of map with which to measure progress, although admittedly it also has the potential of being an ego trap at the same time.

Regarding the use of 'I' in his book: I don't know. He claims that his practice brought him to a point where the center point dropped away. It's just his assertive personality and writing style that might give the impression of a big ego.