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  • Attainment of Fruition

    In this excerpt from the Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw teaches on the attainment of fruition.

  • Insight Knowledge

    In this selection from the Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw discusses a few of the stages of insight knowledge.

  • Reviewing Knowledge

    In this selection from the Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw teaches us about reviewing knowledge.

  • Knowledge that Leads to Emergence

    In this selection from Mahāsi Sayadaw’s Manual of Insight, we learn about knowledge that leads to emergence.

  • Insight Knowledge that Discerns Conditionality: Purification by Overcoming Doubt

    In this selection from the Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw outlines purification by overcoming doubt.

  • Stages of Insight Knowledge

    In this selection from Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw guides us through the stages of insight knowledge.

  • Purification of Conduct

    In this supplementary reading from the book Manual of Insight, Mahāsi Sayadaw—one of the originators of the vipassana movement that swept through the Buddhist world in the last century—addresses ethics related to the purification of conduct for both monks and lay people.