Technique of Vipassana meditation (vipassana)

Every country in this world, everyone, even a smallThe people is unique and at the mention of certain causes persistent association, unique to him. For example, Spain is associated with bullfights, flamenco, Italy – c pizza, mafia, Mexico – with tequila, well, India, most often associated with concepts such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Yoga and, of course, meditation. In general, the philosophy of the Indusuizma very versatile and directed, basically, to personal self-development, self-knowledge, the discovery of the hidden abilities of the body. Achieving a person of a particular spiritual and physical condition is achieved by practicing regular psychophysiological techniques - yoga. One of its essential components is a complex mental inEXERCISE aimed at achieving a particular spiritual and mental state - meditation. There are many meditation techniques, but one of the most interesting is the technique (vipassana). In fact, this is one of the parts (culmination) Buddhist meditation technique: the initial stage is samatha, whose purpose - to calm the mind and release itfrom unnecessary thoughts, and the second - Vipassana, which aims to develop clarity of insight (translated from Sanskrit - « higher vision »). The essence of this technique in self-knowledge, the study of their body and mind. Technique of Vipassana is areligioznoy, ie does not include a commitment to any religion with all its components (RiteE, rituals, cults and other things). Self-knowledge through Vipassana involves the development of control over their feelings, the development of the ability to realize them, but it does not respond (positively or negatively), and just watch as if from the outside. That is why Vipassana reduced to the observation, the feeling of his body.