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Vipassana is insight meditation, which means seeing things as they are. Vipassana is a method of personal transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the profound interconnectedness of mind and body, experienced personally by focusing on the physical sensations that make up the body’s life, which constantly interact with the mind and condition its state.

We will examine in six languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian) the Vipassana meditation techniques according to the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, as taught by Satya Narayan Goenka, and the Vipassana meditation practices of the ten-day group course in which I participated as a meditator, at the «Dhamma Dullabha» Vipassana Meditation Center (Avsyunino, Moscow Region, Russia).

Vipassana meditation practice is an ancient Buddhist technique of self-observation that teaches one to see reality as it is. The main goal is to purify the mind of impurities by observing one’s own thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations without judgment. For deep immersion, practitioners undergo 10-day retreats during which they observe strict rules: «noble silence,» renunciation of the outside world, and a vegetarian diet.