Vipassanā | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-11

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00:01:41 1 Etymology
00:03:46 2 Origins
00:07:12 3 Theravāda
00:07:21 3.1 Relation with samatha
00:07:59 3.2 Vipassanā movement
00:10:10 3.3 Vipassana-meditation
00:10:19 3.3.1 Morality, mindfulness of breathing, and reflection
00:12:56 3.3.2 Stages of Jhana in the Vipassana movement
00:14:22 4 Northern tradition and Mahāyāna
00:14:32 4.1 Texts
00:16:28 4.2 iSunyata/i
00:18:29 4.3 Sudden insight
00:20:28 4.4 East Asian Mahāyāna
00:22:49 4.5 Tibetan Buddhism
00:25:12 5 See also
00:25:21 5.1 Buddhism



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Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (Sanskrit), "insight," is prajñā "insight into the true nature of reality", defined as dukkha "suffering, unsatisfactoriness", anatta "non-self", and anicca "impermanence", the three marks of existence in the Theravada tradition, and as śūnyatā "emptiness" and Buddha-nature in the Mahayana traditions. 
Meditation practice in the Theravada tradition ended in the 10th century, but was reintroduced in Toungoo and Konbaung Burma in the 18th century, based on contemporary readings of the Satipaṭṭhāna sutta, the Visuddhimagga, and other texts. A new tradition developed in the 19th and 20th century, centering on bare insight in conjunction with samatha. It became of central importance in the 20th century Vipassanā movement as developed by Ledi Sayadaw and U Vimala and popularised by Mahasi Sayadaw, V. R. Dhiravamsa, and S. N. Goenka.In modern Theravada, the combination or disjunction of vipassanā and samatha is a matter of dispute. While the Pali sutras hardly mention vipassanā, describing it as a mental quality alongside with samatha which develop in tandem and lead to liberation, the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the commentaries describe samatha and vipassanā as two separate meditation techniques. The Vipassanā movement favours vipassanā over samatha, but critics point out that both are necessary elements of the Buddhist training.