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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4962183" data-attributes="member: 120286">Vipassana Meditation   The Technique     Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of   India's most ancient techniques of meditation.  It was rediscovered   by Gotama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was taught by him as   a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an   <a href="http://www.dhamma.org/en/art.shtml" target="_blank">Art Of Living</a>.     This non-sectarian technique aims for the total eradication of   mental impurities and the resultant highest happiness of full   liberation.  Healing, not merely the curing of diseases, but the   essential healing of human suffering, is its purpose.     Vipassana is a way of self-transformation through self-observation.   It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which   can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the   physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that   continuously interconnect and condition the life of the mind.  It   is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the common   root of mind and body that dissolves mental impurity, resulting in   a balanced mind full of love and compassion.     The scientific laws that operate one's thoughts, feelings,   judgements and sensations become clear.  Through direct experience,   the nature of how one grows or regresses, how one produces   suffering or frees oneself from suffering is understood.  Life   becomes characterized by increased awareness, non-delusion,   self-control and peace. The Courses     The technique is taught at ten-day residential courses during which   participants follow a prescribed   <a href="http://www.dhamma.org/en/code.shtml" target="_blank">Code of Discipline</a>,   learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to   experience its beneficial results.     The course requires hard, serious work.  There are three steps to   the training.  The first step is, for the period of the course, to   abstain from killing, stealing, sexual activity, speaking falsely,   and intoxicants.  This simple code of moral conduct serves to calm   the mind, which otherwise would be too agitated to perform the task   of self-observation.     The next step is to develop some mastery over the mind by learning   to fix one's attention on the natural reality of the ever changing   flow of breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils.     By the fourth day the mind is calmer and more focused, better able   to undertake the practice of Vipassana itself:  observing   sensations throughout the body, understanding their nature, and   developing equanimity by learning not to react to them.     Finally, on the last full day participants learn the meditation of   loving kindness or goodwill towards all, in which the purity   developed during the course is shared with all beings. from <a href="http://www.dhamma.org/" target="_blank">http://www.dhamma.org/</a> </blockquote>

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