How to practice Vipasanna meditation correctly?

[Rasheed]

How to practice Vipasanna meditation correctly?

Is simply being present and mindful counts as Vipasanna?

Is what I am doing (basically sitting down, being present, suspending all thought) a Vipasanna meditation? correct way to meditate? 

Anyone who read Daniel Ingram's book, what is the essence of the meditation he is advising in his book? 

[Recursoinominado]

Vipassana has a set of instructions that goes beyond just being present or mindful.

But it is basically super detailed body scanning. W

hen your concentration is sharp enough, you start to scan whole body parts while maintaining equanimity.

I suggest you do a 10-day retreat to get the gist of it.

[Leo Gura]

See my video: Mindfulness Meditation

If you need more details see Shinzen Young's channel.

[Cathal]

I would highly suggest understanding shamatha before you jump directly into vipassana. This is usually the biggest mistake westerners make 

[Cathal]

not to disregard practicing vipassana, but a shamatha-vipassana practice is going to benefit you immensly. see more here (timestamped) 

 

[Michal__]

No. Trying to suspend thought is bad form.

 

Vipassana is about noticing impermanence, no self & unsatisfactory nature of experience. (nonverbal, unless you are using noting - which I would definitely reccomend) 

 

If you don't like theory you should either start with noting or fire kasina (kasina practices are like a perfect mix of Vipassana and Shamatha, fire (candle) is specifically easier for beginners but still brings as intense results as the other kasinas).

Edited January 8, 2023 by Michal__

[BipolarGrowth]

One way I’d describe vipassana would be that it is like using a microscopic precision in awareness to gain insight into the nature of experience. 
 

A good short description of vipassana I’ve heard is “to penetrate and see clearly”. Vipassana has a certain element of intimate and energized observation. 
 

Mindfulness and being present is a great foundation, and it is crucial for vipassana practice. It can take a step beyond those as well. It is gaining clarity into the way things are now at a finer level. 
 

Vipassana practice can be done by also using a starting point of contemplation on the three characteristics to inform your meditation session of what you’re looking for. A quite simple way to do this would be to remind yourself “impermanence” in your mind for a moment before intentionally witnessing the changing, fluxing nature of phenomena as the focus of your session. You can think of this characteristic of impermanence as the focus object of your meditation. Rather than focusing awareness on a particular object or grouping of sensations like in samatha, you can instead focus on this meta-property of experience and see this property at work in any and all phenomena. 
 

It works pretty similarly for non-self and dissatisfaction. 

[John Paul]

The Vipassana that is popular at 10 day retreats goes as follows:

days 1 through 3- anapana technique. Sit and focus on the sensation of the breath passing the area at the entrance of the nostril. Focus just on this area… for three days.

then seven days of vipassana: focus on the sensation the the top of the head and slowly go down- feel your eyes, mouth etc. go down to your toes. And then there are variations like you’ll go back up instead of top to bottom or you’ll start to do both arms same time instead of one at a time. But it basically comes down to feeling the sensation of the whole body in a systematic way while sitting perfectly still. It’s a pain in the fucking ass (literally)

[Rasheed]

Thank everyone for help, this for very useful.