Questions tagged [vipassana]
Vipassanā (Pāli, Vipaśhyanā in Sanskrit, Lhagthong in Tibetan) is a form of insight-meditation and one of the two meditation techniques that supposedly were taught by the Buddha
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Is understanding a practice?
Enlightened people doesn't have any desire, because they see impermanence in everything. All the things are useless to them. To achieve enlightenment , one required to practise deattachment, ...
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Are the Pali-words Patinissagga and Vossagga synonyms?
Are both Pali-words synonyms or is there a slight difference between 'patinissagga' and 'vossagga'?
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Ultimate reality and tilakkhana
Is it correct to say that the tilakkhana (anicca, dukkha, anatta) is ultimate reality?
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What is the difference between panna vimutti and ceto vimutti?
I wonder if the difference has something to do with the permanent destruction (through vipassana bhavana) vs. the temporary destruction (through samatha bhavana) of the kilesas?
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Does Vipassana arise from Samatha/Anapanasati meditation? or is it another trap of monkey mind?
I'm novice to meditation and Buddhism. Apologies if this is silly question
I've been practicing antipasti meditation for few months. While I watch/understand my breath, when a thought arise I use 6 ...
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How Am I not the owner of the mind?
Is it the mind that think mind is owned by itself? Can any one provide insights, techniques, meditations that help me to understand that "mind does not belong to me"?
I aware that thoughts are coming ...
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Intensifying sensations during meditation after switching to an Ayuverdic lifestyle
I've been a Vipassana meditator for some time (2 10-day retreats and regular meditation on a near-daily basis). I've found it tremendously helpful and life changing. I'm also a type-1 diabetic.
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What is wisdom? How to contemplate?
There are 4 aspects of satipatthana meditation. Can anyone explain how to do the cittanupassana? Is it not merelly noting the hate, greed and delusion? Isn't it?.
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What is mind contain of?
What are the contain of the mind?Are emotions being mind contain or they are from of mind energy?how does mind differ from each other?how person being act differently.?
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How anger is developed?
Most of the time I experience the situations that provoke my anger.
I hate people. How to overcome this?how to let go anger?
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Cannot find amazing Buddhism resource with a sequence of instructions/guidance by level
I've previously come across an incredible Buddhism resource that has escaped me. It was a website with a non-modern design, plenty of sub pages that were formed in a sequence in terms of how to study ...
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How to practice vipassana meditation?
I practice vipassana meditation since 2008. My recent experience is breathing can't be noticed. But sensation of the body is present. And thoughts are coming and passing away automatically. Most of ...
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How should I watch sensations in Vipassana meditation?
How should I watch sensations in Vipassana? Should I watch from head to toe and then toe to head? Please explain things step by step as I'm new to Vipassana. Thanks in advance!
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samatha after vipassana
Can one correctly practice anapanasati when one is very used to Mahasi vipassana?
How? Why?
Can one correctly practice vipassana when one is very used to anapanasati or any other samatha practice?...
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Guidance for how to handle stomach problems arising during Vipassana?
During concentration the main thing I can feel during the first half hour or so is the feeling of the stomach/ top part of the intestine area or feelings inside the belly. There's really nothing else ...
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Intensifying sensations in Vipassana
When I sit for Vipassana and observe the sensations, they intensify. The sensations get stronger and stronger the more I observe them. After a limit these sensations break my will power to sit and ...
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why i have to resist itching/tingling sensations
what to do with these sensations,these happens all day,why i have to resist to itch i am wondering when i can simply itch that move on.
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Meditation in day to day life
I lost my interest in things,I just do only day to day life.Is it depression?This happened some months back. I think it is related to my vipassana meditation. Now in meditation saw the sadness and ...
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What happens after anger disappears?
I practiced meditation few years ago,had reached a state where experience consepte of "I"was an illusion.when was Illusion of the I disappeared anger disappeared altogether. But I can't meditate ...
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sensations as meditation object
Can sensations be a meditation object like breath? if yes how do I practice meditations with it?
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How a sotapanna person experiences the mind?
What is the difference between lay person and a person who achieves sotapanna?Does sotapanna person experience less thoughts?Would they experience as dukka,happiness,pain like mind states?
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Is it fine to learn Vipassana meditation online?
Is it essential to go to SN Goenka centre for 10 days to learn Vipassana? Or is it fine to learn Vipassana online?
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Attention to itching makes me unable to focus on anything else
I am spending some time alone in a day (in solitude). During that alone time and during the rest of the day i am feeling itching and tingling. I can ignore both by just watching it as someone ...
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How to meditate after become sotapannna?
If someone sees self is an illusion.it disappears with dvesha.is that the state lord buddha said, anatta ?how do you meditate thereafter?
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Problems of a Lay Mediator
Questions:
Is it normal to shy away from your family when it is hard to interact
with them because they are so caught up in defilement and shaming my
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Meditative-self
Bhikkhu Yuttadhammo mentioned that one shouldn't build up a meditative-self while being a meditator.
How can I prevent this from happening, as I have been quite stiff and getting quieter and more ...
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How not to alter breathing in Anapana meditation?
When I practice Anapana meditation,I often get a feel that I tried to alter my breathing instead of observing natural breathing.So,how can I observe natural breath?What are the best tips for this?
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Mahasi Sayadaw Noting Method (mostly as taught by Yuttadhammo Bhikku): Help with mindfulness during daily activities?
I'm having immense troubles with maintaining mindfulness during the day. Is it really as simple as noting whatever is prominent? Do I just need to stick with it?
Generally, I'm confused as to what ...
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How to avoid subtle biases and inclinations to influence phenomena when doing vipassana?
In other words, how do I know if I'm really being objective?
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How are the three marks of existence experienced through Samadhi meditation?
Could dry vipassana & pure one-pointed samadhi type meditations just be different approaches to the same enlightenment?
If one attains the fourth jhana with one pointed concentration does one ...
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Can the body be stuck in a state during practice?
So I've been doing vipassana meditation more regularly after my second 10 day regularly. I try to do 1hr to 1.5 hr per sitting and meditate as much as possible during my commute.
I've been feeling ...
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Is this just a logic or experience about mind(reality)?
While doing self enquiry kind of meditation(also doing vipassana) there is feel of understanding/experience/logic that make myself convinced(but not strongly) that "me" is not the thoughts or the body ...
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Is there a connection between the Hindu and Buddhist Centres of Psychic Energy?
Further to my earlier question --What is the method for "Coupling of the Serenity and Insight Powers" referred to in the Path of Discrimination? -- a fresh question has surfaced based on the ...
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Categories of Dhammanupassana (Satipatthana)
What are the components, the categories (the dhammas)that have to be observed in dhammanupassana (the 4th field of satipatthana)?
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Vipassana retreat while in post acute withdrawal?
It's a hell of state to observe moment by moment. I mean nothing is really life threatening with PAWS so does a retreat somewhere accommodate this condition?
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How to disambiguate between various meditation practices?
From what I understand, different schools of Buddhism teach different subsets of meditation techniques, or different variations of the same techniques. However, many meditation resources don't specify ...
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Satipatthana bhavana versus Vipassana bhavana
Is there a difference in the practice of satipatthana bhavana and vipassana bhavana? Or are both terms synonyms?
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Strong tingling sensation in face that persists +- hour after meditation
I've been meditating for about 8 years.
Recently I did a second vipassana 10 day silent retreat.
A few days in, when focussing on my face, my face got highly sensitive, and a strong tingling was ...
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What is Modern Vipassana?
The more I learn about the modern Vipassana movement the more I feel it promotes an incorrect or inadequate view. But I don't know the movement well so I thought I'd ask what others here think about ...
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What contentment and modesty, what persistence and grasping, toward what, craving, craving holding on what leads to liberation?
What contentment and modesty, what persistence and grasping, toward what, craving, craving holding on what leads to liberation?
Doing, acting, content toward what is skilful, toward what unskilful in ...
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What is breath?
There is a lot of talk on breath, now what is breath? What's the meaning?
Is it form? What of it? Is it an action? Is it a perception? A feeling? How should it be taken, if to be taken, so that it ...
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In how far does involvement in certain undertaking effects one, good or bad?
In how far does one take part on skilfull or unskilfull undertaking?
In how far does one receives the fruits of good or bad actions by means of getting involved by toughts, signs and deeds, by ...
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What does 'all the phenomena related to the senses are “not real”' mean?
Upasaka Angus asked on another place:
What do you mean that all the phenomena related to the senses are "not real"?
So what does a statement '"all the phenomena related to the senses are "not real ...
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Goenkas vipassana
I focus now on bigger area from top of the nose to upper lip.When I watch breath my focus goes from upper lip to nasal passage but could not return to upper lip that is my tiny spot of focus .It gets ...
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How can watching be non-doing?
In Vipassana meditation ,it is emphasized that one should not force the mind to concentrate on certain object or force anything to happen in particular.Its kind of letting things unfold and just ...
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What lasts longer: the Cheesburger or a perception of it?
What lasts longer: the Cheesburger or a perception of it?
What's more real? Where to put into de-veloping?
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Goenka's vipassana
I can not focus in upper lip: my focus goes in to nostril. I can now watch breath in nostril, but can not stay focussed on upper lip and watch breath. I focus on entire nose and not on upper lip, and ...
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Why not becoming disillusioned toward mind?
An argument why a question "mind vs. matter" will not be given free points on:
That’s why, when it comes to this mind, an uneducated ordinary person is unable to become disillusioned, dispassionate,...
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Are Samatha and Vipassana mentioned in the Pali Canon as different styles/techniques of meditation?
I've seen in a lot of discussions that there are two kinds of meditation methods with different but complementary goals: meditation for establishing tranquility (samatha) and meditation for ...
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Integration of Body and Mind
Upon asking about over-watching Youtube, I wondered if this activity was detrimental because it was merely sensory without much cognition. Buddhism usually promotes seemingly either attention (...
