Insight Meditation

Insight Meditation by Mahasi Sayadaw. Mahasi was a leading figure the revival of Buddhism in Burmas post-independence period, a movement that established many centers for teaching insight meditation. The Mahasi method is designed to allow lay people in the modern world to attain the experience of enlightenment, or nibbana. Vipassana meditation in this tradition is also known as ?mindfulness meditation? for its practice of continuous and unremitting attention to mental and physical phenomena as they appear to the meditator.