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What Vipassana is, where it comes from, what you actually do on a course, and how people keep practising afterwards. Read in order; together it takes about 68 minutes.
विपश्यना के हो, कहाँबाट आयो, र शिविरमा के गरिन्छ
What the word Vipassana means, what meditators actually do, how it relates to calm and to mindfulness, whether it is religious, and how it is learned.
Who the Buddha was, the four places of his life from Lumbini in Nepal to Kushinagar, and what the early texts say he taught about meditation.
From oral recitation to the Pali Canon, Buddhaghosa and colonial Burma, then to India in 1969 and the West: how the practice was kept, lost and revived.
The four noble truths in brief, the Noble Eightfold Path grouped as ethics, concentration and wisdom, and how a 10-day course follows that order.
What the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta says about observing body, feelings, mind and dhammā, and why traditions start from different foundations.
Anicca, dukkha and anattā as the early texts present them, why seeing them is the aim of vipassanā, the stages of insight, and common misreadings.
Calm and insight in the early texts, what jhāna is, and why traditions disagree on how much concentration is needed before insight.
What happens on a 10-day Vipassana course in S. N. Goenka's tradition: arrival, the Code of Discipline, the daily timetable and each stage.
Who a 10-day Vipassana course suits, the health questions on the application and why they are asked, how to apply, what to pack and how to prepare.
What S. N. Goenka's tradition asks of students after a 10-day course, the courses and service open to them, and what other traditions suggest.