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🧘🏻‍♀️ Meditate vs Vipassana. What's the difference? (Finish summary in one post!)

Has anyone ever wondered? When you say that you will "practice," some people tell you to meditate, some people tell you to do introspection. In conclusion, how is it the same or different? 🤔 Today we summarize the difference easily!

🔵 1. Meditate (Samatha) - emphasize "calm."

Aim: To keep the mind still, calm and focused (with more mental strength)

Practices: Focus only on "one thing," such as breath in and out, words of karma (putho), (puffed up, collapsed), or watching a glass / light without letting the mind think about anything else.

Results: Calm mind, relax, reduce stress, better control mood and mind.

Suitable for: a novice who learns to drive, someone whose mind is easily distracted, or someone who wants to train his mind to focus.

🟤 2. Sit in Vipassana - emphasize "wisdom."

Aim: To see the truth of body and mind as a matter of fact; to knowingly and extinguish at cause.

Practices: Consider the body, mind, and emotions that arise in the present reality to see the trinity (vanity-impermanence, every prison-suffering, anatta-non-self).

Result: Seeing the truth of the world, loosening adherence, abandoning passion, and leading to disengagement from suffering.

Suitable for: Someone who has a certain concentration background and wants to develop wisdom for true disengagement.

💡 to remember easily.

Concentrate = keep your mind still and firm (as a base) 🧱

Introspection = Use that stationary mind to see the truth. 🗝️

Both of these must be done in tandem and support, everyone! It seems like we have to have a stationary arm strength first (concentration) to hold a magnifying glass to see clearly the details (introspection). 🤍

💬 Who's that line?

Like sitting still, calm, or like a line of consideration. Comment, tell me soon. 👇✨

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