Part 2 - The Meaning Of Vipassana

If a yogi does not understand the purpose of Vipassana medication, he will not try to discover something by his noting of mental and physical processes.

Vipassana is a compound of two words: vi - and passana. Vi means various, i.e. the three characteristics (transiency, unsatisfactoriness, non self). Passana means right understanding or realization by means of mindfulness of mentality and physicality. Vipassana therefore means the direct realisation of the three characteristics of mentality and physicality.