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What Is Insight Meditation?

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Insight or Vipassana meditation is a form of Buddhist meditation that calms and steadies the mind, helping us to see into our habits and conditioning and allowing us to be more present to any given moment in our lives. We usually begin by focusing attention on the breath. Then we may shift our attention to other aspects of our mind, body, and experience as our practice continues to deepen. The development of insight is observing the three characteristics of existence—anicca, dukkha and anatta—in direct experience.

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