Vipassana meditation is an ancient technique of self-observation and purification that was rediscovered by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. It aims to help practitioners see reality as it is by focusing on the natural breath to concentrate the mind and then observing the changing truths of impermanence, suffering, and egolessness. Regular practice of Vipassana can help eliminate craving, aversion, and ignorance, the three causes of suffering. While aimed at spiritual liberation, it can also help reduce stress and psychosomatic diseases. Vipassana can be practiced freely by anyone regardless of religion as the technique works on universal human problems.
Vipassana meditation is an ancient technique of self-observation and purification that was rediscovered by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. It aims to help practitioners see reality as it is by focusing on the natural breath to concentrate the mind and then observing the changing truths of impermanence, suffering, and egolessness. Regular practice of Vipassana can help eliminate craving, aversion, and ignorance, the three causes of suffering. While aimed at spiritual liberation, it can also help reduce stress and psychosomatic diseases. Vipassana can be practiced freely by anyone regardless of religion as the technique works on universal human problems.
Vipassana meditation is an ancient technique of self-observation and purification that was rediscovered by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. It aims to help practitioners see reality as it is by focusing on the natural breath to concentrate the mind and then observing the changing truths of impermanence, suffering, and egolessness. Regular practice of Vipassana can help eliminate craving, aversion, and ignorance, the three causes of suffering. While aimed at spiritual liberation, it can also help reduce stress and psychosomatic diseases. Vipassana can be practiced freely by anyone regardless of religion as the technique works on universal human problems.
Vipassana meditation is an ancient technique of self-observation and purification that was rediscovered by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. It aims to help practitioners see reality as it is by focusing on the natural breath to concentrate the mind and then observing the changing truths of impermanence, suffering, and egolessness. Regular practice of Vipassana can help eliminate craving, aversion, and ignorance, the three causes of suffering. While aimed at spiritual liberation, it can also help reduce stress and psychosomatic diseases. Vipassana can be practiced freely by anyone regardless of religion as the technique works on universal human problems.
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Vipassana Meditation Course
Introduction to the technique
Vipassana is one of Indias most ancient meditation
techniques. Long lost to humanity, it was rediscovered by Gotama the Buddha more than 2500 years ago. Te word Vipassana means seeing things as they really are. It is the process of self-purification by self-
observation. One begins by observing the natural
breath to concentrate the mind. With a sharpened nature of body and mind and experiences the universal
awareness one proceeds to observe the changing truths of impermanence, suffering and egolessness. This truth-realization by direct experience is the process of process of purification. The entire path and has nothing to do with any organized religion or
(Dhamma} is a universal remedy for universal problems sectarianism. For this reason, it can be freely practiced by everyone, at any place, without conflict due to race, community or religion, and will prove equally beneficial to one and all.
What Vipassana is ? It is a technique that will eradicate suffering. contributions to society.
It is an art of living that one can use to make positive It is a method of mental purification, which allows one to face lifes tensions and problems in a calm, balanced way.
Vipassana meditation aims at the highest spiritual goals of
total liberation and full enlightenment. Its purpose is never
simply to cure physical disease. However, as a by-product of mental purification, many psychosomatic diseases are eradicated. In fact, Vipassana eliminates the three causes of continued practice, the meditation releases the tension developed in everyday life, opening the knots tied by the old unpleasant situations.
all unhappiness: craving, aversion and ignorance. With
habit of reacting in an unbalanced way to pleasant and Although the Buddha developed Vipassana as a technique, its practice is not limited to Buddhists. There is absolutely no question of conversion. The technique works on the and a technique, which can eradicate these problems, will have a universal application. People from many religious denominations have experienced the benefits of Vipassana of faith.
simple basis that all human beings share the same problems
meditation, and have found no conflict with their profession
MEDITATION AND SELF-DISCIPLINE The process of self-purification by introspection is certainly never easy-students have to work very hard at it. By their else can do this for them. Therefore, the meditation will suit only those willing to work seriously and observe the the meditators and is an integral part of the meditation practice. own efforts students arrive at their own realizations; no one
discipline, which is there for the benefit and protection of
