Report from a Practicing Member
Personally, I have received many benefits from our group practice, especially from the interviews with Venerable Dr. Dhammapiya Sayadaw . Please see my report card below from last weeks interview on 9-20. I wrote this to show my appreciation. Background Meditation is normally called a skill of mental training, but the ultimate truth is that Vipassana meditation is in reality a process of processes. All things are manifested in a process of phenomena in constant change. All things--including the act of observation in daily life or in meditation, the observing mind and the object--are in a process of flow from the direct experience of practice, flowing in the flow and with the flow. As Sayadaw Shaw O Min states in his booklet, Right Attitude in Meditation , "...The object is not important. The mind that is working in the background-working to be aware, i.e., the observing mind- is more important..." In a slow process of mental training, to shift attention from the observed obj...
