Wisdom Insight Letter No. 179
Satipatthana 96: Dhammanupassana 1: The great insight that understands Dhamma rightly. 법념처[法念處] 수행
In the early Nikaya scriptures, the objects of observation in Vipassana are generally referred to as spirit and matter, but in the four mindful meditations of the Great Satipatthana Sutta, they are called mind, not spirit, and body, not matter. This is because when practicing, everything that appears in the body and mind is targeted as the objects.
If some of these objects become possible and some do not, this cannot be a practice of recognizing reality (Paramattha). Only when everything becomes an object of practice can it be said to be based on facts. Vipassana meditation practice involves not specifying the object to be noticed.
The practice of awareness of the mind is the recognition of consciousness. Therefore, the object of Vipassana practice can be anything that is good, bad or neither good nor bad. Any object can be Dhamma.
Vipassana (Insight) meditation is a practice that allows you to see objects as they really are. Samatha meditation, which is generally encountered by everyone, does not allow you to see the object as it is. Because it is performed through a specific object and with a certain purpose.
Vipassana that does not discriminate between objects must be started with the right view (samma ditti). Therefore, you can know ‘things as they are’ ‘as they are’, and by knowing what nature the object has, you can deal with it in a fundamental way.
It is difficult for practitioners to practice with this perspective from the beginning. Through the teachings of the Buddha, one must follow the path of practice that allows one to gain insight into one's inner self and gain the right view (see Dhamma letter No. 60, No. 61). In order to have the superior insight to properly understand the Dhamma, the Visuddhimagga states as follows.
The Vipassana of the Dhamma of superior insight was explained as follows:
Consider the object deeply and observe its collapse.
Superior insight appears as emptiness.
Seeing that the object, such as material, and the mind that holds it as the object, [both] collapse.
Insight arises by understanding the empty nature through collapse, saying, ‘Only sankharas collapse, sankharas die, and there is no object again.’ [This is an observation of the Dhamma of advanced insight].
This is superior insight knowledge and also Vipassana for Dhammas, so it is called ‘Vipassana for Dhammas’ of superior insight knowledge.
Through this, I have seen clearly that there is no constant reality and that there is no reality called ego, so I give up my stubbornness that there is reality.
To be continued…
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May the Buddha’s teachings last a long time!
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