Approved Groupsittings in South Africa:

Goenkaji has established the following guidelines to ensure that group sittings will be most beneficial to the students attending them:

• Group sittings are open only to those who have taken at least one ten-day course with S. N. Goenka or one of his assistant teachers.
• The five precepts of wholesome conduct are to be observed in the place where group sittings are held. These precepts include abstention from the following: killing any living creature, stealing, wrong speech, sexual misconduct, and the use of intoxicating drugs or alcohol. Observation of wholesome conduct is a necessary foundation for the practice of Vipassana.
• Participants at group sittings should practice only the meditation technique taught by Goenkaji.

Only old-students who have completed a 10-day Vipassana course taught by S.N.Goenka may attend local groupsittings.