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Are there others here who practice Vipassana meditation ?
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Sorry, not I. Years ago, Transcendental Meditation bit me ... ... Geeez, 45 years next April... (Why does everything make me feel old? LOL!)Are there others here who practice Vipassana meditation ?
Strange. I oughta be more involved with Vipassana, yet I found Zazen more favorable as an applied meditation.
Rather than just seeing things, 'as they are' I also went for, 'what comes out of the woodwork' without thought or attachment once focus through counting of the breaths has been mastered.
All that there meditatin' and ya never got theSorry, not I. Years ago, Transcendental Meditation bit me ... ... Geeez, 45 years next April... (Why does everything make me feel old? LOL!)
Isn't all mediation essentially "insight or clear-seeing" meditation?
@Amanaki What can you tell us about this meditation variant?
All that there meditatin' and ya never got the
clear-seein' insight that you is just really really old?
What do you mean?
Vipassana: Vi (adjective - something special) + Pashya (Seeing) - Sanskrit. A special way of seeing. Not different from normal meditation (though much has been made of it).
Are there others here who practice Vipassana meditation ?
Admittedly, this is the first time I've hear the term vipassana.
I practice samadhi meditation. From what I read in post #3, my practice seems similar. Can you share some of the differences between vipassana and samadhi meditation?
I do. Not nearly as often as I should, alas.
Actually there is not much difference in my understanding. Samadhi meditation has tranquility as "focus while Vipassana means seeing clearly. And if i am not wrong samadhi focus also on the 5 jhanas.
I add a link that explain it better then i do What exactly differentiates Vipassana from Samatha meditation?
There is no such thing as 'normal' meditation. in my view. The term means different things to different people, depending on religion, sect, sampradaya, personal training, and more. In order to better understand what a person means, they have to provide some description of their actual practice. It's a lot like the term 'yoga' in that way.Vipassana was the meditation Buddha sakyamuni was teaching his followers and as a follower of Buddhism this is the practice i do
What do you mean by "normal meditation"?