SAATHI begins campaign for new academic session with daylong Vipassana

GANGTOK, 19 Apr: Sikkim Against Addiction Towards Healthy India [SAATHI], in coordination with Padma Odzer Choeling School, Chongay organized a day long Vipassana meditation for students of Tadong Senior Secondary School on 19 April. Thirty-six students from standards IX and X participated, a press release informs.
Nekung Keepu Lepcha along with two other instructors carried out the daylong session, introducing the students to Vipassana.
The aim behind organizing the event was to help students achieve “real peace of mind and lead a happy, useful life”, the release details. The meditation was held at the Dhamma Hall at Chongay.
The next batch of student will be from Deorali Girls Sr. Sec School.
Vipassana means to see things as they really are; it is a logical process of mental purification through self observation.