Dai no Shin Ji Buddhists

Vispassana training for Buddhists

What is Vipassana

It it referred to as insight meditation.

Vipassana ( is referred to as insight meditation is the reality of self ." The Buddha discovered that the cause of suffering can be erased when we see our true nature. It means that our happiness  depends on our ability to see ourselves clearly ( in   knowing oneself facts are revealed about the issue of permanent self.

 

Vipassana meditation is a rational method for clarifying in  the mind of the mental factors that cause distress and pain.  These techniques empowers us through on our own efforts.

Vipassana is an insight that cuts through conventional perception to perceive mind and matter as they actually are: impermanent, unsatisfactory, and impersonal. Insight meditation gradually purifies the mind, eliminating all forms of attachment. As attachment is cut away, desire and delusion are gradually diluted. The Buddha identified these two factors— desire and ignorance— as the roots of suffering. By removing ignorance, the mind can touch something permanent beyond the changing world.

Insight meditation is concerned with the present moment to the most extreme degree possible. It consists of observing body (rupa) and mind (nama) with bare attention.

The word "vipassana" has two parts. "Passana" means seeing, i.e., perceiving. The prefix "vi" has several meanings, one of which is "through." Vipassana-insight literally cuts through the curtain of delusion in the mind. "Vi" can also function as the English prefix "dis," suggesting discernment— a kind of seeing that perceives individual components separately. The idea of separation is relevant here, for insight works like a mental scalpel, differentiating conventional truth from ultimate reality. Lastly, "vi" can function as an intensive, in which case "vipassana" means intense, deep or powerful seeing. It is an immediate insight experienced before one's eyes, having nothing to do with reasoning or thinking.

What Is insight meditation

It is the method by which the Buddha and his disciples freed themselves from every form of suffering and attained awakening.

Is insight meditation an escape from reality?

No. it is the ultimate confrontation with reality.

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