Vipassana Thai-Eng

Phra Brahmapundit 7 23
citta, cetasika, rūpa, and nibbāna. Citta means consciousness,
your mind. Cetasika means mental acts or mental contents,
whatever methods of mental activities or mental practices there
are. Rūpa means your body. Nibbāna means the outcome
of the Enlightenment. So the Abhidhamma is a roadmap to
Enlightenment. It gives you rational guidelines for vipassāna.
The Abhidhamma presents the theoretical aspects of insight
meditation. The practical aspect of the Buddhist teaching is
vipassāna.
Now let us turn to the subject of teaching meditation in
the West. There are many things to talk about, and I will try
to give you my idea. I think the details of insight meditation
are up to you. It is up to the various members of the groups to
consider this subject. So when we focus our attention on how
to teach insight meditation in the West, I would suggest that
do not forget the Thai tradition of concentration meditation.
There are forty methods of how to practice insight meditation.
What about concentration meditation? What role does it play?
For those who come to the temple just for a quick meal,
for fast food, you have a kind of meditation for them. And