What is insight meditation? Insight meditation ( Vipassana ) means inward seeing the reality as it is, not as we would like it to be. It brings a radical change in our personal world, the change in how we see others and ourselves. Insight is a tool that reveals the Awaken Mind of purity and clarity, allowing the perfection of the art of living moment to moment.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a focused attention place n any mental object ( thinking, anger, calm and etc. ) or any physical object ( body postures, movement, breathing, and etc.)
Mindfulness is the direct experience of touching only the present moment of our lives. When training in the practice, the meditator can directly experience the constant shifts of the phenomenal world and not be led astray by deluded thinking This experience is entirely different from theorizing or conceptualizing information about reality. We will understand that the present moment is the only time for living.
Mindfulness, a mental factors, is a tool used in training and is subject to change. It rises and falls and varies in intensity.
The insight worker needs to have the mind constantly moving on to the next object in consciousness, that is focusing on the present object and then forgetting or releasing it. Mindfulness should not be grasped. Touch And Go is the main Key to mindfulness practice.
The Benefits of training
Practicing Insight Meditation
1. Result in the experiential knowledge of wisdom, and the abandonment of clinging to concepts, which are useful conventions, but which are not the ultimate truth.
2. Develops, in the deepest sense, a person of true spiritual culture.
3. Develops loving kindness and compassion, joy and peace of mind.
4. Cultivates gratitude and gentleness.
5. Promotes selflessness in aiding others, without ego-involvement.
6. Gives relief from stress and anxiety in daily life.
7. Promotes freedom from anger, worry, craving, conceit, spiritual doubt, restlessness and mental turmoil
8. Develops the powers of concentration.
9. Results in freedom from grief and sorrow.
10. Banishes mental confusion by promoting the clarity of mind body states
11. Promotes the unity of humanity and respect for all sentient life.