During life people are unable to avoid suffering from different desires; Vipassana meditation helps people to have insight about their desire, and how they can liberate themselves from this desire and become happy by letting people look into their heart.

Vipassana: self-liberation

People can better know themselves and search for the truth within themselves which is the principle that leads to happiness, because people have to find the truth by themselves and it can not be taught by any authoritative figure. It is a personal principle instead of logic and pragmatic solution.

Vipassana: Truth about happiness

1. Self-liberation

2. Truth about happiness

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Vipassana meditation is a form of Buddhist meditation that involves continued close attention to sensations and mental events with the intention of gaining insight to the true nature of existence/ reality.  

Vipassana (insight) meditation

Hart, W. (2011). The art of living: Vipassana meditation as taught by SN Goenka. Pariyatti.

The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

It has been supported by mutliple studies that MBI's such as Mindfulness Meditations and Vipassana Meditation help those involved in the justice system reduce stress, anger, substance use and improve emotional regulations.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Incarcerated Individuals

Through Vipassana Meditation females, especially non-buddhists, reported experiencing reactions to gender discrimination as well as  increased femininity, despite VM being a non-gendered practice.

Vipassana Meditation and Gender

Preliminary studies have shown that practitioner’s of VM have a lower density of occipital slow sleep spindles and experienced a reorganization of memory consolidation during sleep.

Vipassana Meditation and Sleep Regulation

"Vipassana" means insight in Sanskrit. It is the media of teaching by Buddha. Because Buddha attain the experience of truth by meditation, what Buddha taught people will also be meditation. 

Definition of Vipassana

Participants are asked to stay in an isolated, secluded place for 9-10 days to avoid contact with others. The basic physical needs are provided by a helper. Participants follow code of morality which includes abstinence and celibacy, and they are required to be silent except for asking for help and instruction.

Practice of Vipassana Meditation

To search for truth:

1.Truth of reality and suffering

2.Truth of mind and happiness

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