Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft
A lot of you may have been extremely educated in vipassana meditation. Vipassana is a phrase in Pali (a useless language used solely in historic Buddhist scriptures) which implies “investigation” or “particular perception.” The cognate phrase in Sanskrit (utilized in Vajrayana in addition to Hindu Tantra) is Vipashyana, that means basically the identical factor. We use our meditative consciousness to see “issues as they are surely,” and that’s how we get particular perception into our expertise.
Usually, vipassana is practiced in a dualistic method. I, the viewer, over right here (on the appropriate, say) and doing vipassana on a object, like my respiratory sensations, over there (on the left). The viewer and the seen are seen as separate. Moreover, when doing vipassana, we normally are investigating the “three marks of existence” — i.e. impermanence, non-self, and unsatisfactoriness.
Vipashyana, alternatively, is practiced in a nondual method. There is no such thing as a “me over right here” taking a look at at “factor over there.” There is no such thing as a must fabricate a viewer, or a factor being seen. Slightly, experiences come up in consciousness, and consciousness merely notices them, from inside and round them. There is no such thing as a separation between consciousness and expertise—they’re features of the identical consciousness. And as a substitute of trying on the three marks, consciousness is solely noticing the vacancy of the experiences arising—i.e. the truth that they’re a sort of psychological development in-and-of consciousness.
So, despite the fact that the 2 phrases vipassana and vipashyana each imply doing investigation to get particular perception, the method concerned is de facto fairly totally different.
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