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Vipassana: the Buddha's tool to probe mind and body

Progress in Brain Research, 2007
The chapter reviews certain practical aspects related to Vipassana , a first-person method taught by the Buddha, to probe one's stream of conscious experience, its contents and related material events. Although references to Vipassana are found scattered throughout the Pali literature the most comprehensive and detailed account with regard to its ...
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Goenka’s Vipassana Movement

2020
Abstract S. N. Goenka’s Vipassana movement is famous for its ten-day intensive silent retreats and its consistent rejection of religious categories, though its teachings and practices are directly derived from Theravada Buddhism. Drawing from qualitative research, this chapter examines a range of rhetorical strategies that Goenka uses to
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Vipassana Meditation and Social Development

2021
Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 1, 1 ...
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Ethnography of the Vipassana Meditation Retreat

Fieldwork in Religion, 2015
The practice of vipassana meditation emphasizes the role of meditative experience in coming to understand the Buddhist worldview and in effecting personal transformation. Data obtained from fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2005 at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre (BMIMC) in Medlow Bath, NSW Australia, illustrate the process by which ...
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Buddhist Modernism and the American Vipassana Movement

2011
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Purpose and method of Vipassana meditation.

The Humanistic Psychologist, 1994
This article was originally presented orally by Shinzen Young as the opening talk of a retreat he led, on the practice of Vipassana meditation. The editor decided to retain its flavor as a talk by keeping intact the conversational aspects of the presentation as it was first given.
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Vipassana Meditation im Westen

2012
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit ist, den heilsamen Effekt der Vipassana Meditation auf allen Ebenen zu untersuchen. Vipassana ist eine Meditationsform mit buddhistischen Wurzeln. Der Buddhismus war schon Gegenstand vieler anthropologischer Untersuchungen, meist in historischen Kontexten oder Ritualforschungen.
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Vipassana Meditation and the Psychobiology of Wilhelm Reich

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1985
Theravada Buddhism and Reich's psychobiology appear at first to be polar opposites. Yet there is a Theravada school of meditation, the Vipassana of U Ba Khin, which in both theory and practice turns out to be remarkably close to Reich's worldview and his therapy.
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Vipassana Meditation and Its Reception in Vietnam

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
Currently, meditation in general and insight meditation (Vipassana) in particular is one of the very effective methods to help people find inner peace and stability in an unpredictable world. Due to this, they can see the meaning of life, letting go of ignorance to achieve the ultimate goal of liberating themselves from worldly suffering.
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Meditation and Awakening in the American Vipassana Network

2019
Certain patterns have developed around meditation and enlightenment, or awakening, as many prefer to call it, in the American Insight network. Network here is defined as a loose affiliation of individuals and communities that prioritize Vipassana meditation as their central practice and trace their immediate Buddhist roots to Burmese and Thai ...
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