> Vipassana is not like a week at a spa. Right, I was conflating two separate points there: one is definitely about lengthy extreme programs, but another is th

> Vipassana is not like a week at a spa. Right, I was conflating two separate points there: one is definitely about lengthy extreme programs, but another is that some people mentioned that it's better to spend more time with other forms of meditation (e.g. samatha) to develop other aspects of the eightfold path first, before getting into vipassana.