Vipassana, or insight meditation, is a practice of looking beyond the world of appearances, it’s a practice of looking directly at the nature of all things.

It is sometimes translated as ‘clear knowing’ or ‘bare knowing,’ which I think is a useful way to think about it — to observe, to feel, to see clearly and directly the raw data of experience, to see things not as concepts or ideas but to know them directly.

So, just as when Jesus invited us to learn to see again through eyes of a child, vipassana asks us to see the world as it is, without concepts, without biases and judgments clouding the raw experience of it. It invites us to step into the foundational wonder of all things.

It is a means to wisdom, to peace, love, and understanding.