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Insight Meditation

The ever popular question is "what is my level or attainment in meditation?"

As we realise more on "Non-self/anatta", this query becomes less important, as the deluded sense of ego atrophies with meditation, that sense of need to 'attain' diminishes.

Let us read the conversation between the Lord Buddha and Maha-Pajapati, and recall the qualities that the Lord Buddha said one will develop if the Teachings is correct......

leads to DISPASSION AND NOT PASSION,
to DETACHMENT AND NOT BONDAGE,
to DECREASE OF WORLDLY GAINS NOT INCREASE,
to FRUGALITY NOT COVETOUSNESS,
to CONTENT NOT DISCONTENT,
to SOLITUDE NOT COMPANY,
to ENERGY NOT SLUGGISHNESS,
to DELIGHT IN GOOD NOT EVIL.

If one is progressing well in meditation, ALL these qualities will manifest in one's daily life, otherwise it is all just talk and make believe, with stock answers given at interviews as a result of theoretical knowledge, NOT INSIGHT.

Insight will change one's life, theory disappears when we end the meditation session.

So if one is truly interested to know " what is my level of Insight?", no interview is needed, JUST LOOK AT OUR OWN LIVES..... its staring us in the face.