Who does not know Fabio Volo? Known writer and actor, our deejay brings good humor, peace and joy to your radios every morning.
The Flight of the Morninghistorical program aired on Radio DEEJAY Monday to Friday from 9 to 10, it provides daily maxims of spirituality, which help listeners to start the day well, focus on the good things in life and shake off anxieties and negative energies.
The less affectionate public may not know that Fabio, in his private life, carves out great space to devote to inner serenity: he usually practices Buddhism, meets shamans, shares experiences with foreign peoples and indigenous tribes who favor exchanges of ideas and cultures. He even met Sadhuru, a great Indian mystic.
Shaped by different visions, strong human situations and encounters in which there is no dominant culture, our deejay believes inprimitive equalitythe one that unites us all as human beings, regardless of who we are, what we do for a living and where we come from.
“I don’t do strange things, they are just experiences that enrich me. I also go with Johanna (his partner ed) and the children, we don’t start doing the rain dance “. – Fabio Volo
Fabio Volo: “I’ll tell you about my meditation course”
The writer is not new to a certain type of experiences that we could almost define “mystical”, in search of inner peace, of union between body and soul.
In an episode of the Flight of the Morning, Fabio Volo explained on the air how to do for meditate successfully, recounting an experience lived in first person, lasting ten days and completely isolated from the rest of the world. Listen below.
Listen to Fabio Volo’s words: “We could neither speak nor look at each other”
I did a Vipassana meditation course, on the hills of Piacenza. When you enter they pick up your phone, you stay alone for ten days. You can’t talk to anyone and you can’t even have the famous eye contact, that is, you can’t look anyone in the eye. You wake up at 4.30, do meditation for two hours as they teach you, then light breakfast, rest and more meditation. Sleep early in the evening and start again in the morning, they wake you up with the gong ”- Fabio Volo
Fabio Volo also unveiled one live recipe learned in the monastery with which the monks used to have breakfast, to be prepared in the evening for the following morning and to be combined with rice and almond milk.
They put the plums underwater the day before, along with two cinnamon sticks, a shredded apple and cloves. In the morning, everything is boiled and ready to drink. “Of a unique goodness”, according to the experience of our conductor.
What is Vipassana Meditation
But what exactly is the Vipassana meditation? This word comes from the Pali Indian language and means “to see things as they are”.
It serves to learn to refrain from any addiction that prevents control over one’s mind, according to the monks. The purpose of the spiritual retreat alone with oneself, which can last even months, is to become absolute masters of one’s mind, without being a slave to it anymore.
Piacenza is one of the many Burmese monasteries that open their doors to Westerners, to people of all ages and social classes. Inside we relate to a very rigid regime for both the body and the mind. In addition to speaking, in fact, reading and writing is also forbidden.
“It’s a very intense thing, on the second day I wanted to climb over and go home. They told me to resist because things would improve: they were right ”- Fabio Volo
It is a (minimum) ten days in total detachment from everything and everyone: those who try it accept and choose to travel within themselves, rather than around cities or monuments. It is no coincidence that it is also called “tourism of the sacred”. And often the participants stay in touch with each other to tell each other about the effects on returning to “real life”.
“Once we were in the courtyard, I started talking to the stones. When a farmer with a tractor passed outside, we all ran near the gate to look at him: it seemed like a unique spectacle ”. – Fabio Volo
Fabio Volo and a typical day in spiritual retreat: “It was absolutely forbidden to do two things”