What is the right attitude for Insight Meditation?

1. Don’t focus too hard, don’t control. Neither force nor restrict whatever you can feel good or bad. Just try to act with action only , to do with doing only which doesn't represent something or someone.

2. Don’t try to create anything,
and don’t reject what is happening. Just be mindful/not to forget only the Original Truth.

3.Trying to create something is greed.Rejecting what is happening is aversion.
Taking/Assuming that something is happening or something has stopped is delusion. Taking if something, someone as reality, is misunderstanding of the Original Truth.

4. Meditating is accepting/believing whatever happens — whether pleasant or unpleasant—as unreality but Just Ever-new Impermanent nature.

5. Just pay attention to accepting whatever in the present moment, thoughts about the past & the future are unreal but ever-new impermanent nature.

6. Why do you focus so hard when you meditate? Do you want something ? Do you want something to happen?
Do you want something to stop happening? ....with the idea of something, someone as reality?
This is not insight meditation if one of these attitudes with the idea of something, someone as reality, is present.

7. The meditating mind will be relaxed & at peace if you don’t forget it is also ever-new impermanent nature only because the mind taking only ever-new impermanent nature as reality won't take something/everything or someone/everyone (relative truth) as stress/craving/reality.

8.The observing mind won’t automatically have the idea of likes, dislikes or anxiety only when right understanding happens.

9. Some teachers will ask you to have any expectations, not to want anything, not to be anxious, but taking these attitudes as unreality but just ever-new impermanent nature, is more important rather than whether arising of them or not.

10.You are not trying to make things turn out the way you want them to happen. You are trying to accept whatever is happening as only misunderstanding (avijja-samudaya sacca) of these happenings as reality.

11. What is the mind doing?
Thinking? Being aware? Don’t forget the truth of whatever kind of minds happening are unreal but just ever-new impermanent energies.

12. Where is the mind now? Inside? Outside? Is the watching or observing mind properly aware or only superficially aware?
A kind of mind will arise & pass away. But Accept that whatever kind of mind inside or outside or superficial or deep, is unreal but ever-new impermanent nature.

13. You have to accept and believe both good and bad experiences are just ever-new impermanent energies.
You want only good experiences?
You don’t want even the tiniest unpleasant experience?
Is that reasonable? or the way of the Dhamma?

14. The object of attention is not really important; the observing mind that is working in the background to be aware isn’t so important. Continuous right accepting/attitude that both the observing mind and object are unreal but ever-new impermanent nature is of real importance. Then any object will be the right object.

15. Meditating is neither doing something nor doing nothing. taking that something or everything is real.
Meditation is NOT trying to experience something special or to be a special one but to abandon the idea of something or someone as real.

16. When meditating, both the mind and the body may be sometimes comfortable and sometimes may be getting tired.
Whatever situation-whether comfortable or tired is not important except paying attention to the original truth.

17. Don’t feel disturbed by the thinking mind. You are not practising to prevent thinking; but rather to practise to accept whatever kind of thinking arising is unreal but just misunderstanding that it is disturbed or likable or real.

18. You have to double check to see what understanding/attitude you are meditating with.
Accepting all fabrications are unreal but just ever-new impermanence enables you to abandon all stress permanently. Do you have the right attitude?

19. Only when there is faith or confidence (saddha) upon the middle way, effort of practising it will arise.
Only when there is effort(samma vayama), right remembrance & right taking(accepting) of the truth (samma sati & samma sankappa) will become continuous.
Only when samma sati & samma sankappa are continuous, right concentration in contemplating the truth (samma samadhi ) will become established.
Only when samma samadhi is established , right knowing/understanding of the truth (samma ditthi), When you start understanding the truth (pañña), real faith will grow stronger.

20. Don’t stress/fear the arising of defilement (kilesa). Just fear the assuming (taking ) the defilement as mine, own of individual.

21. Don’t practise with a mind that wants something or wants something to happen with the idea of something as reality. The result will only be that you tire yourself out.

22. Some teachers will teach you not to reject any object that comes to your attention & not to hate the defilement that arise in relation to the object. But Don't forget these attitudes are also unreal but ever-new impermanent nature only.

23. Meditation is not just to note upon something/movement.
Meditation is to abandon the idea of observing mind, object of attention as reality by remembering the original truth.

24. Insight Meditation is not just noting/attention the differences of nature in each by each.
Insight Meditation is the abandoning the idea of differences of something/everything in nature by not-forgetting the same original truth of nature.

25. If you think the object you’re observing is special for Vipassana, your meditation is not Vipassana meditation as you forget the same truth of all conditioned objects are unreal but ever-new impermanent nature only.

May you be happy & able to understand about Insight Meditation.
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