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the Sila – the universal moral values, the values which are common to all human beings in all societies, not contextual.

pannia – the wisdom that finally leads towards liberation

The philosophy behind this practice is to break the old pattern of mind and its reactions to different sensations. Probably, by breaking the existing pattern of mind and matter relationship, in terms of reactions to sensations and feelings that create aversion to bed feelings and pain on one hand and craving to good feelings and pleasure on the oth... See more

effort made by the meditator to understand right nature of psycho-physical phenomena taking place in his/her own body (Sayadaw, n.d: 138). The insight meditation appears to be a kind of detector of one’s nature that “shows us who and what we are, and what we can become.

To study self and to explore personal accounts methodologies among other emerging new designs of qualitative paradigm within social science, the characteristics of autoethnography seem to be one of the best methodologies/methods of inquiries to conduct this research. Autoethnography is a product of three spaces – auto means self, ethno means socio ... See more

Vipassana meditation is not a religious practice,

Sella and samadhi are the prerequisites of the VM and the practice of observing sensation and being Equanimeous (remain in state of observing rather reacting to sensations)