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What is arising and passing away?
The Fourth Knowledge is the “arising and passing away,” which is when recognizing moments or objects are coming to your mind and passing through very quickly and “you’re not stopping the flow of experience to have a reaction to it or have a relationship with it, or cognitive story about it.
What is the technique of Vipassana meditation?
Vipassana is an ancient mindfulness meditation technique. It involves observing your thoughts and emotions as they are, without judging or dwelling on them.
What happens during the vipassana stage?
When they reach this stage of the Vipassana such unpleasant feelings generally appear. If they concentrate on them and say, ‘itching, itching’ or ‘pain, pain’ or some other appropriate words as a confirmation of awareness these unpleasant feelings will gradually disappear.
What is Vipassana or insight meditation?
“Vipassana ” is a Pali word, “ vi” meaning intensive, deep or clear and “passana ” meaning seeing or perceiving, so “vipassana ” or insight meditation is the technique of deep or clear seeing or perceiving, to gain an insight into mental and physical phenomena as they really are.
Are these therapies a distorted version of Vipassana?
These therapies are the distorted versions of Vipassana itself. What a gross misuse of such a highly spiritual technique that it is used for curing diseases by exerting some pressure on a particular point or puncturing another point of body. It is a great devaluation of the importance of Vipassana.
How to understand Patanjali Yoga Sutra?
The practice of Vipassana will reveal the real meaning of each and every word of Patanjali Yoga Sutra to the practitioner. This is the only way to understand Patanjali. Yogasutra is not a subject of mental entertainment or sermons or debate or means to establish a particular philosophical doctrine.