..续本文上一页since all phenomenal existence consists of nothing apart from the five aggregates. What do we aim at seeing as a result of this scrutiny

　　 We aim at seeing the transience, the unsatisfactoriness, the non-selfhood inherent in all things in the world. We observe them arising, persisting and ceasing until we come to perceive them as absolutely fearsome and disenchanting, and realize that nothing is worth getting or being. These are the conditions that ought to arise in vipassana practice. What is the objective of vipassana

　　 The immediate objective of vipassana is to reduce delusion, the meaning of "vipassana" being "clear vision." What is the fruit of vipassana

　　 The fruit is the arising of clear intuitive insight, clear and enduring insight into the nature of all things, which ultimately will reduce the defilements to nothing. With the defilements gone, there is just perfection, enlightenment, peace. Nothing remains to bind the mind to any worldly condition. As a result, there comes about a slipping free from the world, this place of slavery to sensuality. The mind is freed of suffering because it”s freed for good of all craving or desire. The Buddha called this the attainment of the cessation of suffering, the attainment of the Fruit of the Path, Nirvana. To have achieved this is to have carried out to completion the task Buddhism has set for us.

　　This shows us the path of insight that has to be walked. There are seven stages of Purification which must be integrated in this way, and nine steps in the process of developing knowledge of the world. These taken together are known as vipassana. In the Texts it is set out as an ordered system. The finer details can be found in the books written by later teachers. There is one important thing that must be realized, however, in order to avoid misunderstanding. It so happens that even in the field of Dhamma practice, the highest aspect of Buddhism, there are misguided people. At the present time there are many who have got hold of things that are not vipassana at all and are presenting them as being the real thing. They have made vipassana practice their means of livelihood. They win people over in order to get classes together, then proceed to certify them as noble ones (Ariyapuggala), modern style, all of which is most despicable and regrettable.

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