Ramiro Calle

The Teachings of Vipassana Meditation

Original title:

Las enseñanzas de la meditación vipassana.

About the book:

 

The teachings of Vipassana Meditation

Buddha was the most lucid man of his time and he dedicated many years to intense meditation. Although Buddha took advantage of all the yoga methods of meditation available during his lifetime, he developed his own very effective method known as vipassana (penetrating and clear vision; just and exact vision), capable of eradicating the subconscious conditioning that emprisons the person and brings such misery to the mind... Vipassana Meditation, based above all in exploring the psychophysical activities of the person meditating, is extremely effective in modifying old patterns of mental behaviour and liberating the mind, favouring thus the liberating vision (vipasana).

Ramiro Calle presents the reader with the main methods of Vipassana Meditation in a preeminently practical manner, covering every aspect of this age-old method which represents the true meditation taught by Buddha.

About the author:

Ramiro Calle has travelled more than fifty times to Asia and has interviewed the most relevant monks and specialists in Theravada Buddhism, a branch of Buddhism which has preserved for two thousand years the Vipassana technique, practiced in our time by a large and growing number of Westerners. Ramiro Calle has practiced it himself for many years and has written more than one hundred books on psychology, mysticism and spirituality in the East.