Vipasana

Description

“Insight meditation” redirects here. Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (Sanskrit), “insight,” is prajñā “insight into the true nature of reality”, defined as dukkha “suffering, unsatisfactoriness”, anatta “non-self”, and anicca “impermanence”, the three marks of existence in the Theravada tradition, and as śūnyatā “emptiness” traditions.