Insight⏳

Insight, when developed, leads to higher wisdom into the true nature of phenomena, which is defined by the three characteristics and emptiness, and which permanently liberates the mind from ignorance and ultimatley leads to the realization of Nibbana. The cultivation of insight requires skill in observing, investigating, and discerning the nature of conditioned phenomena, or “formations.” Doing so requires intense concentration through the development of serenity. The stilled mind “sees things as they really are”, that is, it observes phenomena as it arises and passes away, making serenity the foundation for the development of insight. As Emerson put it, our “calm hours” reveal “that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.”

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References

• Bodhi, Bhikkhu. (2005). In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter VIII. MASTERING THE MIND (Location 3967, 4482). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.

• Emerson, W,. Ralph. (1844). Self-Reliance and Other Essays Chapter 2 Self-Reliance (Location 553). Dover Publications.

• Anguttara Nikaya 2: iii, 10; I 61

• Anguttara Nikaya 4:94; II 93–95

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