Walking alone.

As long as we do not understand the purity and truth of Dhamma, our group, our organisation, our religion and our meditation style and practice will always be like a political movement in our life, comparing, judging and criticising others that we see as different from ourselves. Those who ‘do not know’ also compromise pure Vipassana practice, with teachers and different schools claiming only their system works and all others are inferior. This is only ego and salesmanship and cannot ever be what the liberated and loving mind of the Buddha shared. Vipassana practice is for everyone who wants to change their life and makes no social, cultural or gender requirements. If you want to be free from the causes of your unhappiness, this is for you. The word Vipassana means, ‘to see things as they really are,’ and is not and cannot ever be confined only to a sitting meditation practice. If you are washing the dishes with love and awareness, that’s Vipassana, if you are speaking to others with love and awareness, that’s Vipassana, if you are sitting quietly being with the mind and sensations in the body moment after moment with love and awareness, that’s Vipassana. True Vipassana practice is not a special narrow activity excluding everything except our formal meditation. It is the cultivation of a loving and aware heart, no longer being deluded by what the mind presents as reality. It is a relationship with life itself. It is the way of liberation from the one who causes all the difficulties in our life. It is the way to realise the smile of the Buddha in our own heart. This is Vipassana.

May all beings be happy.