Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
by Ayelet Menahemi, Eilona Ariel

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Director: Ayelet Menahemi, Eilona Ariel
Edition: VHS Tape
Publisher: Karuna
Studio: Karuna

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Movie Review: Buddhist meditation & prison reform
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a powerful and moving fifty-minute documentary about the transformation of India's largest prison when Vipassana meditation courses were introduced for prison staff and inmates in the 1990s. The film won awards from the San Francisco International Film Festival and the U.S. National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

It's also available on DVD (and in Spanish, French, and Mandarin) from a Buddhist bookstore called Pariyatti.

Movie Review: A prison in India of 10 000 people, some take chance on peace instead of aggravation
Summary: 4 Stars

A woman in India realized that containers of punishment do /not/ heal ones we are going to put back into our community, and that this could be changed, and that she was determined to /make/ that shift begin.

( I may have a couple of details wrong, it's been years since I saw it, but my memory's usually rather correct )

In the large prison where the program was introduced, a few chose to try this silent breathing-meditation, instead of being in the general-aggravation population.

I think the rules were that food would be brought-in ( so no-one would have to speak to coordinate food-preparation ), to help with the focus for the ones in the separate group.

One of the guys in the prison was, I think, English, and his interview is significant through the film. . .

Later, /only/ ones who have been in the program are allowed to volunteer for the ones /in/ the program. . .

The film shows how peace, from within, /real/ peace, can be grown among ones who are "doing time", and makes obvious that the /results/ of this are that a healthier human-being is released into our community, than the *beating-on* "doing time" that authority-assumption prefers.

Please note that I consider it sane to focus on the end-result ( re-integration ) rather-than to throw-away community re-integration in order to enforce a beating-on mode of punishment: segregation & deprivation of diversion & time & no-self-determination & possibly-life are enough.

Unlike many films about incarceration, it doesn't glorify authority-enforcement, it shows peace to be living-worth.

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