Vipassana

An all-embracing awareness arises from within and takes over when one sits silently and does nothing; no effort, no choice, no doing – just being.  Vipassana Meditation is a precious time to simply sit and  shift the attention from the world to one’s inner nature – awareness. Vipassana is not  ‘doing,’ it is allowing. Quieting the mind allows one’s silent nature to surface. The result is resting into an awakened silence.

As a device to observe the mind, the attention is shifted to the flow of one’s breath. If a distraction occurs, it is observed, not pushed away – only to return to the underlying stillness. There is no need to ‘do’ anything. the watching is not an activity- Vipassana is merely connecting to this ever-present quality of awareness. The work is the intention and the stillness. The rest happens on its own.