1 00:00:00,082 --> 00:00:05,888 Go ahead, go ahead. 2 00:00:05,908 --> 00:00:06,569 Sorry, you were saying? 3 00:00:08,390 --> 00:00:24,807 You said in one of your videos that we should practice satipasana and vipassana, but 4 00:00:25,158 --> 00:00:28,403 Which technique should be used? 5 00:00:28,423 --> 00:00:36,695 I mean, can we do some satipatthana at the beginning of meditation and then vipassana or we should separate it? 6 00:00:36,715 --> 00:00:41,843 Just to be clear, satipatthana is the practice, vipassana is the result. 7 00:00:43,846 --> 00:00:47,271 So you can't practice vipassana without satipatthana. 8 00:00:47,291 --> 00:00:50,215 You can't obtain vipassana without satipatthana. 9 00:00:51,036 --> 00:00:52,178 That's the point. 10 00:00:52,158 --> 00:00:55,964 So you can't practice vipassana. 11 00:00:56,084 --> 00:01:08,201 I don't want to be categorical about it because there are certain teachings that appear to be saying that you do contemplate impermanent suffering and non-self. 12 00:01:08,221 --> 00:01:19,077 But I would say it's just simplifying what's really going on and that is paying attention to the five aggregates. 13 00:01:19,057 --> 00:01:22,562 The Satipatthana practice is paying attention to the five aggregates. 14 00:01:22,682 --> 00:01:27,909 Form, we have this physical sensation, physical experiences. 15 00:01:28,891 --> 00:01:34,919 Vedana, which is our feelings, pain and happiness and calm and so on. 16 00:01:36,461 --> 00:01:39,225 Sanya, our memories and perceptions. 17 00:01:39,205 --> 00:01:53,906 sankhara, our thoughts, our judgments, our projections and formations in vijnana, which boil down to the same thing as the four satipatthanas. 18 00:01:53,926 --> 00:01:54,548 This is 19 00:01:54,528 --> 00:01:57,973 This is the truth of suffering. 20 00:01:58,494 --> 00:02:05,886 The four satipatthanas are the five aggregates and that is the object of meditation to realize vipassana. 21 00:02:06,627 --> 00:02:09,431 Once you look at these things, you'll see the first noble truth. 22 00:02:09,572 --> 00:02:15,000 The first noble truth is another way of saying the three characteristics. 23 00:02:14,980 --> 00:02:22,693 And sorry, I haven't made it clear that what I'm saying is that what we mean by vipassana is the realization of the three characteristics. 24 00:02:24,255 --> 00:02:30,606 The word vipassana is a synonym for realization of the three characteristics. 25 00:02:30,626 --> 00:02:34,272 That's what the definition of vipassana is. 26 00:02:34,252 --> 00:02:45,713 So that doesn't come about unless you look at things that are impermanent suffering and non-self and in a way that allows you to see them as impermanent suffering and non-self. 27 00:02:46,722 --> 00:02:54,576 The considering in your mind that this is impermanent, that that is suffering, this is non-self is just intellectual. 28 00:02:55,397 --> 00:03:03,010 Mahasi Sayadaw was explaining really the easiest way to explain the problem with that is that you don't have enough concentration. 29 00:03:03,371 --> 00:03:05,715 You're not really focused on the object. 30 00:03:06,196 --> 00:03:10,924 You need very strong concentration to see things as they are. 31 00:03:10,904 --> 00:03:18,994 It has to suppress the hindrances and allow your mind to be clear when you observe something. 32 00:03:19,054 --> 00:03:24,281 So simply thinking about something is not going to give you that kind of concentration. 33 00:03:24,401 --> 00:03:27,485 It's in fact a distracted state of mind. 34 00:03:29,047 --> 00:03:38,278 So you have to focus on the objects of experience. 35 00:03:38,697 --> 00:03:46,606 from moment to moment in order to get that kind of concentration and in order to really see things as they are. 36 00:03:46,646 --> 00:03:48,928 That's how vipassana arises. 37 00:03:48,948 --> 00:03:51,311 So you don't practice both satipatthana and vipassana. 38 00:03:51,331 --> 00:03:55,215 You practice satipatthana and it lets you see things clearly, which is vipassana. 39 00:03:56,497 --> 00:03:57,177 Does that make sense? 40 00:04:01,322 --> 00:04:02,844 Yes, thank you. 41 00:04:02,864 --> 00:04:03,304 You're welcome.