Vipassana

Vipassana is a Buddhist meditation practice that cultivates insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self through observation of experience.

Satipatthana: The Buddhist practice of establishing mindfulness through contemplation of body, feelings, mind, and mental phenomena. Vipassana commonly develops through the four foundations of mindfulness described in this framework.
Dukkha: A Buddhist term for suffering, stress, or the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned existence. Vipassana investigates how grasping and change make experience unsatisfactory.
Pali Canon: The collection of scriptures preserved in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, written primarily in Pali. Early discourses in this collection describe mindfulness and insight practices.
Mahasi Sayadaw: A Burmese meditation teacher who developed a widely influential noting-based Vipassana method. His method directs attention to changing bodily and mental events through mental noting.
Samatha: Buddhist meditation that cultivates calm and concentration through a stable object of attention. Samatha foregrounds mental tranquility, while Vipassana investigates the changing nature of experience.
Anapanasati: A Buddhist meditation practice that uses awareness of breathing to cultivate mindfulness and insight. Attention to breathing can steady the mind before investigating experience.
Anicca: The Buddhist principle that conditioned things are impermanent and continually changing. Noticing change directly is a central object of insight practice.
Theravada: A major Buddhist tradition whose surviving canonical scriptures are primarily in Pali. Vipassana is especially associated with modern meditation movements rooted in Theravada contexts.
S. N. Goenka: An Indian meditation teacher who popularized a Vipassana course tradition based on body scanning. His lineage teaches systematic observation of bodily sensations in residential courses.
Zen meditation: Meditative practices in Zen Buddhism, including seated meditation known as zazen. Zen approaches such as zazen belong to different Buddhist lineages and practice frameworks.

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