My Experience with Self-Courses: Forest and Home

By Brian Bender | 11/4/2025

In the summer of 2020 when the country was shutting down and Vipassana Centers were becoming more restrictive, I figured it was a good time to meditate on my own for ten days. In the woods. After all, didn’t the Buddha say, “Go meditate in the woods.” Or more precisely, in the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta he said, “Here a monk, having gone into the forest, or to the foot of a tree, or to an empty room, sits down cross-legged, keeps his body upright and fixes his awareness in the area around the mouth.”

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