Mahasi Meditation
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
or card
Every little donation helps and every one is deeply appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
May blessings shower down on all of yous 🙏🙏🙏
Meditation is the systematic training of attention. Attention is the deliberate placing of awareness on its object, in order to know the object.
All Buddhist meditation methods can be regarded as developing 'serenity' or developing 'insight' . Vipassana meditation is meditation for the purpose of cultivating insight or clarity about experience. The meditator aims to discern the three universal characteristics of experience according to Buddhism: its unsatisfactoriness, impermanence and impersonal nature.
Mahasi Sayadaw was a leading figure the revival of Buddhism in Burma post-independence, a movement that established many centres for teaching insight meditation. The Mahasi method is specifically designed to allow lay people in the modern world to attain the experience of enlightenment, or nibbana. Vipassana meditation in this tradition is also known as 'mindfulness meditation' for its practice of continuous and unremitting attention to mental and physical phenomena as they appear to the meditator.
The Mahasi Centre and hundreds of branch centres inside and outside Burma teach thousands of students every year, and the Mahasi tradition is one of the most influential meditation lineages in Theravada Buddhism.