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2.内观简介（2. introduction to Vipassana） Vipassana introduction November 1990 goenkaji speak in Australia Blackheath Dhamma Bhumi Vipassana Center This is a sunny morning, hello. You to the meditation center, here is to understand what in practice? What to teach? The word meditation has different meanings for different people. Because there are many different types of meditation. People often have an understanding of meditation, concentrate, and fixed on a target or other things, mostly imagined goal. You close your eyes and try to imagine that this God or goddess, this or that the image of the Holy one. If the heart away, youll pull it back, if the heart has turned away, you can pull it back. As such, you try to make the mind. Another way is you begin to repeat certain words. Any word -- something you have confidence of God, goddess, or the names of saints. You keep repeating this name in my heart. Heart away, you bring it back to repeat, heart and run away, you can pull it back repeat. This is what you are trying to focus on the way of the heart. Or, you heart is to give some hints, some self suggestion. As such, you try to make the mind. Or, you just meditate, just think of some good things, a holy one wonderful discovery, your piety classic sentences. Just like this, with different objects, there are many different methods of meditation. However, in the teaching, is a completely different approach. Of course, the focus is of help, this no doubt, but it is only a means, not the destination. Here to teach meditation - Vipassana - the purpose of Vipassana in India, ancient Pali Language, the word Vipassana means to observe, observe as original reality. It seems not so, it is not so, but as it is, it is the real essence of its true characteristics. So you are avoided for reality, illusion, illusion or confusion. What about the reality? About your own reality. This is one of the biggest illusion, a person does not know who I am, or rather, what am I? All past sages have