A recent NPR segment highlighted what, of all places, a maximum security prison outside Birmingham in Bible-Belt Alabama is doing to transform its lifer inmates and the prison itself. A program dedicated to the practice of Vipassana meditation is changing the lives of those who made mistakes and are paying for them behind bars.
The William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility's Vipassana teacher Carl Franz says, "Everyone's mind is kind of Pandora's box, and when you have 33 rather serious convicts facing their past and their own minds, their memories, their regrets, rough childhood, whatever, their crimes, lots of stuff comes up."
You don't have to be in a physical prison to experience that Pandora's box, either. A lot of "stuff" comes up at first, no matter who you are or what you've done.
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The William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility's Vipassana teacher Carl Franz says, "Everyone's mind is kind of Pandora's box, and when you have 33 rather serious convicts facing their past and their own minds, their memories, their regrets, rough childhood, whatever, their crimes, lots of stuff comes up."
You don't have to be in a physical prison to experience that Pandora's box, either. A lot of "stuff" comes up at first, no matter who you are or what you've done.
Click on the icon for the full story which includes a 7min 15 second audio file.
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