Vipassana is development of awareness.

2. Connecting

Greed and hatred are the prime manifestations of the ego process.

There is no clinging to the pleasant, no fleeing from the unpleasant. Mindfulness treats all experiences equally, all thoughts equally, all feelings equally.

PROBLEM 2: LEGS GOING TO SLEEP

When mindful, you don’t play that game. You just notice exactly what arises in the mind, then you notice the next thing. “Ah, this… and this… and now this.” It is really very simple.

Mindfulness is mirror-thought. It reflects only what is presently happening and in exactly the way it is happening. There are no biases.

You can’t examine something fully if you are busy rejecting its existence.

MISCONCEPTION 8: MEDITATION IS A GREAT WAY TO GET HIGH.