[Indoendris]

I've been practicing vipassana meditation and observing what comes up in my mind. The question occured to me: is remembering a form of clinging? Thank you. Dyana

[LoloLibia]

Welcome to the group dyana !

My understanding is that in Vipassana one simply notes what occurs in the mind as it arises and passes. Therefore if a memory arises one doesn't try to analyse it as clinging.

This might be helpful for further clarification:

The other practice is 'vipassana', or 'insight meditation'. With insight meditation you are opening the mind up to everything. You are not choosing any particular object to concentrate on or absorb into, but watching in order to understand the way things are.

Now what we can see about the way things are, is that all sensory experience is impermanent. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, touch; all mental conditions -- your feelings, memories and thoughts -- are changing conditions of the mind, which arise and pass away. In vipassana, we take this characteristic of impermanence (or change) as a way of looking at all sensory experience that we can observe while sitting here.

This is not just a philosophical attitude or a belief in a particular Buddhist theory: impermanence is to be insightfully known by opening the mind to watch, and being aware of the way things are. It's not a matter of analysing things by assuming that things should be a certain way and, when they aren't, then trying to figure out why things are not the way we think they should be.

With insight practice, we are not trying to analyse ourselves or even trying to change anything to fit our desires. In this practice we just patiently observe that whatever arises passes away, whether it is mental or physical.

continued:

http://www.dharmaweb.org/index.php/V..._Investigation There's also a guided Vipassana meditation with Ajahn Sumedho which might be of interest:

http://diydharma.org/guided-vipassan...on=node%2F2732

with kind wishes,

Aloka-D

[cheesypeetyz]

I've been practicing vipassana meditation and observing what comes up in my mind. The question occured to me: is remembering a form of clinging? Thank you. Dyana

greetings Dyana

'remembering' is not clinging per se but remembering can certainly be a form of clinging

for example, if someone asks us in our job: "do you remember that lawyer that gave us that really good legal advice because we need to employ him again for a new legal dispute", that remembering is obviously not clinging

but if our mind is returning to and obsessing over events from the past, for no spiritual or beneficial purpose, then that returning to the past will most likely be clinging

kind regards

element

[TughEmotteTug]

Thank you. Dyana