Vipassana Meditation

Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is the world’s most ancient, simplest yet most effective technique of meditation. Truly scientific and nonsectarian, it’s been called “the universal remedy for universal ills.”

Well, you don’t need us to tell you how hard it is to control or pacify the mind. It has been compared to the maddened monkey:

There was a monkey, restless by his own nature, as all monkeys are. As if that were not enough someone made him drink freely of wine, so that he became still more restless. Then a scorpion stung him. When a man is stung by a scorpion, he jumps about for a whole day; so the poor monkey found his condition worse than ever. To complete his misery a demon entered into him. What language can describe the uncontrollable restlessness of that monkey? The human mind is like that monkey.¹

Meditation, when done correctly, not only calms down the mind, but sharpens it as well. There is tremendous openness and clarity, because an empty mind obstructs nothing, overcrowds nothing, distorts nothing.

Ordinarily, the mind is full of rubbish. It has been compared to a dirty, dusty mirror. Meditation, through self-observation, gradually eradicates mental defilements, which results in a balanced mind full of love and compassion. In the final analysis, meditation is a state of pure consciousness.

There is some way that things actually are, apart from how they seem and what is thought about them: the actuality of self, life and another. When, in meditation, this actuality is experienced directly, wisdom arises spontaneously.

Meditation is the ultimate medicine. It ends suffering and brings the highest happiness of full liberation.

In conclusion, you have a thousand and one problems, and you try to solve them. But not even a single problem is ever solved, because in the first place you don’t have a thousand and one problems, you have only one. Find out what it is and how to cut the very root of it.

In these three hours, you will not only learn the basics of the method, but also practice the technique sufficiently enough to start experiencing its beneficial results.

Did you know...

...that Conscious Connected Breathing course now includes a 20-minute guided vipassana meditation, along with instructions on how to incorporate mindfulness of breathing (anapanasati) and insight (vipassana) meditation into your connected breathing session? That’s two courses for the price of one. Try it on for size >

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