Objects
of Insight Mediation
There
is lot of commercial advertisement to meditation, I thought of giving
a little resume for the novice.
There
are 18 kinds of insight knowledge that can be used as objects of
Vipassana Meditation.
It
is Knowledge or Truth or Dhamma based meditation as opposed to
Samatha Meditation.
1.
Annitta Contemplation of impermanence
2.
Dukkha Contemplation of unsatisfactoriness (suffering)
3.
Anatta Contemplation of non self
4.
Nibbhidana Contemplation of disinclination or
aversion
5.
Viraga Contemplation of dispassionateness
6.
Nidodha Contemplation of extinction or cessation
7.Patinissangga
Contemplation of of abandonment
8.
Khayanu Contemplation of body
9.
Vayanu Contemplation of state vanishing
10.
Viparinama Contemplation of state change
11.
Animitta Contemplation of state of conditionlessness
12.Apanihita Contemplation
of state desirelessness
13.
Sunnatta Contemplation of state of emptiness or void
14.
Adhipanna Contemplation based on higher knowledge
15.Yathabhuta Contemplation
based on knowledge and vision of reality
16.
Adhinavana Contemplation of misery
17.
Patisankha Reflecting or thinking on contemplation
18.
Vivatta Absence of cycle of existence – Nirodha samapatthi
