/tags/vipassana/ Recent content in Vipassana on Harshvardhan /img/sharing-image.png /img/sharing-image.png Hugo en Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /vipassana2/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /vipassana2/ <p><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight-meditation-and">Kaj Sotala</a> writes:</p> <blockquote> <p>Usually, most of us are - on some implicit level - operating off a belief that we <strong>need</strong> to experience pleasant feelings and need to avoid experiencing unpleasant feelings. In a sense, thinking about getting into an unpleasant or painful situation may feel almost like death: if we think that the experience would be unpleasant enough, then no matter how brief it might be, we might do almost anything to avoid ending up there.</p> /meditation/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /meditation/ Between Dec 15 and 25 of 2022 I attended a meditation course called Vipassana. Vipassana is a Pali word that means &lsquo;seeing things as they are&rsquo;. The course promised me to teach how to have a clear awareness of exactly what is happening as it happens. It is a form of mindfulness meditation.