1 00:00:01,820 --> 00:00:03,907 Okay. 2 00:00:05,071 --> 00:00:14,142 Can we recollect on Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta during our meditation, for example when pain appears? 3 00:00:16,315 --> 00:00:18,758 You can, but it's not vipassana. 4 00:00:20,581 --> 00:00:26,670 In Thai they call it vipassanuk, because nuk means thinking. 5 00:00:28,512 --> 00:00:42,492 Recollecting on impermanent suffering and non-self, you actually do see some instances of this in the Tipitaka where the Buddha has you recollect of something as being impermanent. 6 00:00:43,754 --> 00:01:06,859 I think, I don't want to say absolutely not, but the general, I think we have to interpret that carefully because the observation that we get from meditation is that when people do that, they don't have actual experiences of impermanent suffering and non-self. 7 00:01:06,839 --> 00:01:11,446 The truth of anicca, dukkha and anatta is that you see them in every moment. 8 00:01:11,987 --> 00:01:14,371 Everything is impermanent suffering and non-self. 9 00:01:14,391 --> 00:01:19,198 They don't really exist as entities. 10 00:01:19,238 --> 00:01:23,465 They are the realization that comes as a result of seeing things as they are. 11 00:01:24,346 --> 00:01:28,172 And if you notice, they're all really the absence of something. 12 00:01:28,152 --> 00:01:40,071 It's destroying the illusion of permanent stability, satisfaction and controllability. 13 00:01:40,952 --> 00:01:48,304 So when you see, for example, you watch the stomach rising, at the moment of seeing rising, you're seeing impermanent suffering and not-self. 14 00:01:48,504 --> 00:01:52,911 You're seeing something that is inherently impermanent suffering and not-self. 15 00:01:54,308 --> 00:02:16,204 And so the wisdom that we're looking for is as a result of breaking away from our delusions, our ideas that these things are permanent, that these things are satisfying, that these things are controllable. 16 00:02:17,185 --> 00:02:18,207 So you'll see... 17 00:02:19,992 --> 00:02:29,264 You'll see something very simple, that the rising and falling is going of its own accord, that it's changing, that it's unsatisfying, that it's uncontrollable. 18 00:02:30,025 --> 00:02:44,042 You'll see these things and it will jar with your expectations, it will jar with your intentions, your desires to make it stable, your desires to make it satisfying, your desires to make it controllable. 19 00:02:44,022 --> 00:03:10,806 it's that jarring that that is the the awakening that occurs the change in the mind the realization seeing things that you never saw before it has to come by itself and it really should come from intensive meditation practice where you dedicate yourself to to seeing things 20 00:03:10,786 --> 00:03:15,953 from moment to moment as impermanent suffering and non-self. 21 00:03:16,608 --> 00:03:20,914 Basically, vipassana is the result of the meditation. 22 00:03:20,975 --> 00:03:22,437 It's not the practice that we do. 23 00:03:22,897 --> 00:03:28,706 So everyone's always complaining about vipassana meditation, saying, where did the Buddha teach vipassana meditation? 24 00:03:28,746 --> 00:03:30,429 You can't practice vipassana. 25 00:03:31,210 --> 00:03:31,751 And they're right. 26 00:03:32,252 --> 00:03:38,441 We don't call it vipassana meditation because we want people to practice vipassana, and we want people to practice insight. 27 00:03:39,122 --> 00:03:45,231 We call it vipassana meditation, insight meditation, because that's what we hope people to get from it. 28 00:03:45,211 --> 00:03:49,615 Vipassana meditation is actually the practice of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. 29 00:03:50,196 --> 00:03:58,304 So if you look at the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Satipatthana Sutta, you won't see the Buddha telling you to contemplate on impermanent suffering and non-self. 30 00:03:59,745 --> 00:04:04,790 You'll see him telling you to contemplate on things as they are, which is very common. 31 00:04:04,830 --> 00:04:12,838 You hear the Buddha talk about yathabhuttanya anadasana, knowing and seeing things as they are. 32 00:04:12,818 --> 00:04:19,309 And that is impermanent suffering and non-self. 33 00:04:19,349 --> 00:04:25,400 That once you can see things clearly as they are, you will see impermanent suffering and non-self. 34 00:04:26,622 --> 00:04:28,065 You'll see that you can't control things. 35 00:04:28,145 --> 00:04:30,148 You'll see that things don't go according to your wishes. 36 00:04:30,649 --> 00:04:33,915 You'll see that clinging to them causes you suffering and so on and so on. 37 00:04:33,895 --> 00:04:40,265 And you'll slowly, slowly give up and let go of the things that you cling to. 38 00:04:40,325 --> 00:04:44,752 And that is as a result of seeing them clearly as they are. 39 00:04:46,354 --> 00:04:48,818 Seeing that they're not what you expected them to be. 40 00:04:48,958 --> 00:04:52,984 They're not permanent, they're not satisfying, they're not controllable. 41 00:04:52,964 --> 00:04:55,347 Vipassana is the result, not the practice. 42 00:04:55,387 --> 00:04:58,771 Just as with Samatha meditation, you don't practice tranquility. 43 00:04:58,811 --> 00:05:03,136 You practice some meditation technique in order to bring about tranquility. 44 00:05:03,477 --> 00:05:05,339 These are the two different kinds of meditation. 45 00:05:05,379 --> 00:05:08,503 People say, how can you split them up easily? 46 00:05:08,943 --> 00:05:11,046 One leads to one thing, one leads to another. 47 00:05:11,086 --> 00:05:13,188 Certain meditations don't lead to insight. 48 00:05:13,989 --> 00:05:16,272 Certain meditations... 49 00:05:16,252 --> 00:05:20,679 don't directly lead to tranquility in a worldly sense. 50 00:05:20,699 --> 00:05:29,092 They might only lead to the cessation experience of realizing Nibbāna, which is of course the greatest tranquility of all. 51 00:05:30,494 --> 00:05:31,997 So that's the separation. 52 00:05:32,017 --> 00:05:32,758 Does that make sense? 53 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,694 Does that answer your question? 54 00:05:38,734 --> 00:05:42,293 I wouldn't worry too much about vipassana. 55 00:05:42,595 --> 00:05:44,505 Worry more about satipatthana. 56 00:05:44,646 --> 00:05:48,064 That's the practice.