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Introduction to the Manual of Insight

A Wisdom Academy Online Course with Kamala Masters and Steve Armstrong

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Lesson 1: Introduction to the Manual of Insight

Watch Lesson 1a: Introduction to Mahasi Sayadaw’s Manual
Watch Lesson 1b: Preparatory Practices
Watch Lesson 1c: Purification of Conduct
Watch Lesson 1d: Live Conference
Introduction to the Manual of Insight
Preparing for Vipassana

Lesson 2: Mental Purification

Watch Lesson 2a: Momentary Concentration
Watch Lesson 2b: Hindrances
Lesson 2c: Insights Through Momentary Concentration
Mental Purification
Meditation: Mindfulness of Primary and Secondary Hindrances

Lesson 3: Conventional and Empirical Realities

Lesson 3a: Two Views of Reality
Lesson 3b: Empirical and Inferential Insight
Lesson 3c: Empirical Knowledge of the Five Faculties
Watch Lesson 3d
Meditation: All About Empirical Mindfulness
Conventional and Empirical Realities

Lesson 4: Mindfulness

Lesson 4a: A Present Moment to be Known
Lesson 4b: Objects of Awareness
Lesson 4c: Unique and Universal Natures of Phenomena
Lesson 4d: Pre-vipassana Knowledge
Meditation: Mindfulness and the Objects of Mindfulness
Mindfulness

Lesson 5: Insight and Spiritual Goodies

Lesson 5a: Arising and Passing Away
Lesson 5b: Pseudo-Nibbana and Spiritual Goodies
Lesson 5c: Letting Go of Ecstasy
Watch Lesson 5d
Insight and Spiritual Goodies
Meditation: Metta and Right Practice

Lesson 6: Purification of Understanding

Lesson 6a: Dukkha nanas
Lesson 6c: Re-affirmation of the Way
Lesson 6b: Three Aspects of Disillusionment
Meditation: Guided Metta Practice
Purification of Understanding Dukkha

Lesson 7: Equanimity

Lesson 7a: Abandoning Latent Defilements
Lesson 7b: Qualities of Equanimity
Equanimity
Lesson 7c: How Equanimity Liberates
Meditation: Guided Equanimity Practice

Lesson 8: Realizing Nibbana

Lesson 8a: The Nature of Nibbana
Lesson 8b: From Equanimity to Nibbana
Lesson 8c: Purity of Enlightenment
Watch Lesson 8d
Realizing Nibbana
Meditation: The "Dukkha-Free-Zones" of Insight

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