About the Teacher

Mahãsi Vipassana

Martin Pack

Introduction

Martin Pack was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire, UK. Since childhood he felt an instinctive pull towards meditation, mantras, and different forms of concentration practice. At the age of 39 Martin visited the Northern Thai Temple of Wat Phradhatu Sri Chomtong, where the venerable Abbott Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo resided. This proved to be a life-changing moment.

Through Ajahn Tong, one of Thailand’s most respected vipassana teachers, Martin discovered the meditation practice that would change his life, and later that of hundreds of his own students.

After this visit Martin returned to Thailand many times, eventually spending longer periods at the Northern Thai Temple. Martin assisted the head teacher of the international department there and in 2008 his teacher Kun Thanat asked him to teach the basic instructions of vipassana and organise courses in the Northern Thai village of Pai.

This experience was so positive that Martin was asked to stay and continue teaching vipassana. By the beginning of 2009 Martin had received permission from his teachers to teach full vipassana courses in Pai.

Martin teaches the Mahasi-style vipassana meditation of walking and sitting that he practised in the Thai temple of Ajahn Tong. While precise in the execution of the meditation practice itself, Martin’s approach to teaching is also supportive, holistic, and compassionate. Greater self-perception is the aim, helping students to see themselves from a new perspective and, ultimately, supporting them in the journey of gaining insight into the reality of things.

Martin is very grateful for his teachers who have guided and trusted him over all these years.

He has learned over more than 20 years about the benefits of this practice for those who engage in it. The practice can be challenging, but the power of transformation it brings is undeniable.

Martin has taught courses in Thailand, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, France, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica and Israel.

“Let none find fault with others;
but let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”

Gautama Buddha

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22

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14

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Experience

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