[Buddha-l] Vipassana

[Kate]

Hi Jack,
  >I don't know many of the meditation methods to which vipassana is being compared. But, vipassana is not "just sitting". It is a progressive training method teaching correctly and completely focusing on the arising and passing away of mental phenomena in the moment.<

  Pi Kuan is "wall insight" meditation and is said to be the meditation used by the early monks at the Shaolin Temple (possibly introduced by Bodhidharma).  The 'wall' referred to the steep precipice opposite the temple which the monks used as a locus of sight to minimize distractions.  As a result of this meditation the practitioner is said to "realise there is no Self no Other, nor can anyone or thing be distinguished from each other.  Such realization frees one from the necessity of communicating exclusively through words and speech.  In a silent contemplation one is in direct contact with the Dharma Principle itself, serene and beyond the creation of Klesas.  Thus is the "Entering the Buddha's Path by Dharmic Principle". (from Entering the Buddha's Path, a teaching by Bodhidharma).

  Perhaps it isn't the same.

  Thanks for your reply, Jack
  Kate

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