Vipassana sharpens my ability to feel the feelings of others, but I'm not yet sure how best to use that? I've completed 5 10-day Vipassana courses, one Sati, and I've served a 3-day and in various other smaller capacities.  I'll be serving my first 10 day in about 6 weeks, and began regularly sitting 2 hours a day after completing my last course in early December 2017.

I sat a total of 28 days in 2017, and hope to do a similar amount this year as well.

So in short, I feel absolutely certain that this is the path; it's crystal clear to me.  I also have a clear sense of my purpose in this life as a householder, as an aside, but sense that I'll spend large portions of my life sharing with others about my experience with Vipassana to try and help to make them aware of it.

Recently, I've been noticing that my ability to feel the feelings of others, to see where they are, has become sharper and sharper.  I can really feel their pain, and transmute it, and I also see what could be done to really help them.  I feel love for them and want to help them, mostly, with occasional feelings of being negatively impacted by their pain creeping in, but that has lessened as my Vipassana practice has deepened.

The challenge I'd like to understand has to do with learning how to communicate these notions to people in ways that are helpful to them, in ways that aren't perceived to be self-righteous on my part, of know-it-all-y, or whatever.

I suppose this will come to be with more practice, eh?  I feel like that was always Goenka's answer to every question and I understand more and more so what that was the case.

That said, if anyone out there can relate to this and is open to sharing his/her thoughts and experiences, I'd love to hear them. 

I am interested in replies from people who have practiced Vipassana and can relate to my experience here.

Thank you!
I also see what could be done to really help them.


I doubt the above very much. While I do not doubt you are more &amp; more feeling &amp; seeing the situation of others; it seems what you believe can help others is actually what has helped you; which may not actually be what can help others.

Its similar to you had cancer &amp; took a medicine to heal your cancer and now you wish to give your cancer medicine to another person suffering from AIDS. Although you can see the suffering of the person with AIDS, your cancer medicine will not cure AIDS.  


  The challenge I'd like to understand has to do with learning how to communicate these notions to people in ways that are helpful to them,
  in ways that aren't perceived to be self-righteous on my part, of
  know-it-all-y, or whatever.


There is nothing special that can be communicated to others; just as nothing special was communicated to you. 

Thousands of people do meditation retreats each year. Each of these thousands of individual persons receive the same teachings. Possibly 1% of these thousands attain a special benefit. This 1% success rate is due to the individual's disposition &amp; readiness for meditation and not due to the teachings. Even the Lord Buddha was unable to enlighten every person he spoke to. 

In short, your mind might be blinded by the results of your meditation, similar to being blinded when looking into the light of the sun. My answer to you is to simply keep practising what you are practising &amp; keep helping the meditation retreats &amp; Buddhism when you can. But nothing special is required to help others; apart from understanding meditation will not help everybody. 

Many people do meditation retreats because they are suffering &amp; confused. However, the help different people actually need is often different. For example, most people need help about the skills &amp; attitudes required to have successful lasting relationships because this what they really want in life. I spent a number of years working meditation retreats &amp; this is the problem most people had &amp; wanted to resolve, namely, broken or dysfunctional family &amp; personal relationships. They were not really interested in meditation &amp; meditation was not really what they needed.