The Insights called vipassanā are not intellectual. Rather, they are experientially based, deeply intuitive realizations that transcend, and ultimately shatter, our commonly held beliefs and understandings. The five most important of these are Insights into impermanence, emptiness, the nature of suffering, the causal interdependence of all phenomena, and the illusion of the separate self (i.e., “no-Self ”).16 You can experience the first four of these Insights using stable attention (sama-dhi)17 and mindfulness (sati)18 to investigate phenomena (dhamma vicaya)19 with persistence and energy
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