Vipassana-Bhavana: Meditation Through Insight

Perhaps the most difficult journey in clearing the mind of all ills is the beginning the search to gain insight into the reality of your own nature and to experience true freedom from suffering.

Once an individual has gained some interest in wanting to gain the truth as it exists, then it is the starting point for the revelation towards one’s mind. When speaking of the mind, the Buddha does not only think of the brain, but the mind is the whole body it is everywhere, with every atom, and wherever you feel anything. The Buddha explored that every being is a composite of five processes, four of them mental and one physical. The physical is the most apparent, matter or the body, which is readily perceived by all the senses. In one sense you can control the body because it moves and acts according to the conscious will. On the other hand, all the internal organs function beyond our control and knowledge. From the chemical reactions to the muscle contractions, there is no control over these physical parts of the body. Even the subatomic particles that undergo reactions have no real solidity; they may live for the life of the body or die within seconds of creation. Particles continuously arise and vanish, passing into and out of life, like a flow of vibrations, which is the reality of the body discovered by Buddha 2500 years ago. He also found that the entire material universe was composed of particles, called in Pali kalapas, or “individual units.” These units reveal countless variations of the basic qualities of matter: mass, cohesion, temperature and movement. These units are like building blocks, they combine to form structures that have some permanence. However as the Buddha contradicts he says, “But actually these are all composed of minuscule kalapas which are in a state continuously arising and passing away. And this is the reality of matter: A constant streams of waves and particles” (Thera, 1962, 27).

In the last process the purification of the mind is achieved through Panna – understanding, or also sometimes translated as “insight”. “Once an individual has reached the stage an individual realizes reality is as intrinsically impermanent, painful, and impersonal where an individual might ask him/herself: is “reality” or “existence” as it is apprehended in experience” (King, 1980, 93).

The technique of Vipassana Meditation divides the Buddha’s eight-fold path into three processes: Sila, Samadhi, and Panna. Sila refers to the moral precepts, which cover three parts of the eight-fold path: right speech, right action and right livelihood. Meditators are required to follow eight precepts of right action and right speech. F

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