Five Ways to Know Yourself by Shinzen Young

Author:Shinzen Young
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: buddhism, enlightenment, meditation, mindfulness
Publisher: Shinzen Young
Published: 2018-08-22T23:00:00+00:00

Mindfulness is based on an ancient practice from India. In Pali, it is called vipassana. Vi is a prefix that implies both “separate” and “through”, and passana means to see, i.e., to perceive. So the first step in vipassana is to see in a way that separates (i.e., untangles) the strands of sensory experience. But at a deeper level, vipassana means “to see through” to an underlying universal oneness. When you study anatomy, at first you learn to distinguish the various organs and their parts. But when you get to the level of cells, you see that there is a unifying principle underlying the separate components of the body. Furthermore, at the level of that unifying principle, the human body, and the body of a worm, and even the body of a tree are all comprised of essentially similar “stuff,” namely, cells. In the same way, at a microscopic level of observation, the mental images, internal talk, and emotional feelings that constitute the “I” can all be experienced as being made of the same stuff, the vibrating flow of impermanence.

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