Vipassana Meditation

Lectures on Insight Meditation

by Chanmyay Sayadaw | 22,042 words

Vipassana Meditation: English lectures on Insight Meditation By venerable Chanmyay Sayadaw U Janakabhivamsa....

Part 6 - Purification Of Knowledge

And Vision Of The Course

The sixth Visuddhi is Patipada nanadassana visuddhi. Patipadameans the course of practice, nana means knowledge, dassana means vision. Nina and dassana are here referred to in the same sense. In order to lay emphasis on penetration, the text used the two words in the same sense knowledge and vision. So Patipada nanadassana visuddhi means Purification of Knowledge and Vision of the Course of Practice. It means that when we have passed Maggamaggananadassana visuddhi, we are on the right path which leads to Arahantship or the cessation of suffering.

If we were on the wrong path, we would stop at Maggamagga nanadassana visuddhi. Because we are on the right path, we have to go through the nine stages of insight and are approaching the goal, so we can judge that our course of practice is right. Then we do not have any doubt about the course of practice. That doubt has been destroyed by knowledge and vision of the course of practice. Then there is purification of knowledge and vision of the right course of practice - patipada nanadassana visuddhi. When you reach that stage, you have attained Anuloma nana (knowledge of adaptation) because your experience is in conformity with the lower stages of insight knowledge and with the higher stages of insight.

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