Kinds of Insight Knowledge

 This is Abhidhamma terminology

 Kinds of Insight Knowledge

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