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vipassana
(redirected from Insight meditation)

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vipassana (vē·päsˑ·sä·n),
n a meditation practice that focuses on mindfulness.


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In 2519/1976, a group of Americans on the East Coast founded an organization to provide a place for the intensive practice of insight (Vipassana) meditation, called the Insight Meditation Society.
They are living and waiting for a mythology to make everything right according to Daeja Napier who founded the Insight Meditation Center in Boston.
Practices such as Vipassana or Insight meditation can help us navigate reality without getting trapped in the drama that the ego spins about reality.
 
 
 
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