INSIGHT DEVICES AND DISCERNMENTS

                                                 INSIGHT DEVICES

An Insight Device is a conditioned preparation for what is required to happen during the Insight meditation. It can condition the system to react, during the Becoming of Consciousness phase, to elicit from Memory, falling into Cognition, specific and limited chains of data and associations.

For example:

For our seminary students who are not prepared for Chan we use and introduce Vipassana training with the following Immaterial State devices of the twenty-five:

The sense Cognitions

The sense Contact, known as Sensations

The Sense Discrimination

The sense Perception of Name and Form

The sense Thoughts as intention

The sense desires of Identity

The sense reasoning

The sense Investigation

         These can be elicited randomly or with a specific irritation factor.

This allows through the meditation a cleansing of inappropriate memory traces.

                                              DISCERNMENTS

Various Discerments within the unconscious can also be elicited and the experiences placed into memory, where they can in a post-meditation state be retrieved.

            In the insight meditations what we use as the discernment is:

The rising, continuing and falling away states of what is received in Cognition, together with a discerment of the FOUNT of the rising and falling away, which is the MIND, not an external source.

                      This reveals the Non-Existence of Phenomena.

From this, automatically Discerned is Impermanence and the Non-Existence of Suffering.