The right way to Do Nondual Vipashyana

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 historical Buddhist scriptures) which suggests “investigation” or “particular perception.” The cognate phrase in Sanskrit (utilized in Vajrayana in addition to Hindu Tantra) is Vipashyana, which 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.

Sometimes, vipassana is practiced in a dualistic method. I, the viewer, over right here (on the fitting, say) and doing vipassana on a object, like my respiration sensations, over there (on the left). The viewer and the considered are seen as separate. Moreover, when doing vipassana, we often are investigating the “three marks of existence” — i.e. impermanence, non-self, and unsatisfactoriness.

Vipashyana, alternatively, is practiced in a nondual method. There isn’t any “me over right here” at “factor over there.” There isn’t any have to fabricate a viewer, or a factor being considered. Quite, experiences come up in consciousness, and consciousness merely notices them, from inside and round them. There isn’t any 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 type of psychological development in-and-of consciousness.

So, though the 2 phrases vipassana and vipashyana each imply doing investigation to get particular perception, the method concerned is basically fairly completely different.

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