Insight Meditation
Title: Insight Meditation
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 555 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Insight Meditation
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 555 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Buddhist meditation practices often emphasize mainly concentration,
particularly on a certain person, place or thing. They teach the mind to
focus on one point or object, which achieves strength of concentration. The
results are peaceful states, and in some very rare cases are said to create
supernormal powers. That is no wonder why many people steer in that
direction, in hopes of achieving "superpowers". Insight meditation is quite
different however, and although some degree of
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the meditator frees their mind from
its usual state.
Although insight meditation is not the most commonplace of all the
types of meditation, it is a useful tool to become more aware of one's own
body and mind. With a better understanding of one's mind, or a state of
mindfulness, which focuses on internal and external feelings, the mind can
be less cluttered, less confused and more the way it should be, bright and
clear.