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What is vipassana?

What is vipassana? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Buddhism) Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of non-self.
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The formation known as Buddha's Palm is especially conducive to meditative practices such as vipassana, shamatha, and zazen.
Cemetery contemplations, for instance, are included in the Satipatthana Sutra, which I think of as the declaration of independence for vipassana meditators.
In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis.
Intellectual understanding is a necessary foundation for the development of direct understanding or insight, vipassana.
Thus, Buddhist monks acquire both concentration and mindfulness skills through samatha and vipassana meditation training.
You have said that samatha and vipassana or concentration and insight are the same.

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