Saturday, September 27, 2025

When Everything Falls Apart: Insight


When Everything Falls Apart – Seeing clearly through Buddhist wisdom on suffering
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(Buddhism Podcast) Sept. 23, 2025: Buddhism Explained. What do we do when everything falls apart? This Buddhist podcast explores suffering (unsatisfactoriness, not being able to derive fulfillment from anything), radical impermanence, and healing through simple, clear insights from the Buddha's teachings. No fluff, no escape — just honest reflection, grounded wisdom, and gentle English for all listeners.
  • 00:00 - When life breaks in our hands
  • 03:25 - The First Truth: Suffering that arises from within
  • 06:50 - Impermanence: the nature of everything
  • 10:03 - Clear Seeing: a mind that no longer clings
  • 13:17 - Healing isn’t pretending: It’s practice
  • 16:43 - WHAT REMAINS?
  • (FailArmy) Best Fails of the Year | Try Not To Laugh
Vipassana literally means "clear seeing"
The historical Buddha's goal was clearly seeing nirvana in this very life. Theravada follows this.
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Buddhism goes beyond mind to mysticism.
Vipassanā
(Sanskrit vipaśyanā विपश्यना, Sinhalese විදර්ශනා) literally means "special, super (vi-), seeing (-passanā)" [3] and is generally referred to as "insight."

Samatha means "calm" [1], "serenity" [2], "tranquility of awareness" [Web 1]. They are two qualities of mind cultivated in tandem in Buddhist practice, with profound calm coupled with mindfulness (dispassionate awareness) serving as the basis for insight knowledges.

In the Pāli language canon and the Āgama, these qualities are not specific practices but elements of "a single path." They are "fulfilled" with the development (bhāvanā, "cultivation") of mindfulness (sati) and meditation (jhānas, lit. the meditative "absorptions") and other path-factors [4][5].

While absorption (jhāna) has a central role in the Buddhist path, vipassanā is rarely mentioned separately. It is usually described along with samatha [4][5] because they are steps towards one goal: liberating wisdom (panna, Sanskrit prajna). More: samatha-vipassanā


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  • FailArmy Best of the Year; Buddhism Podcast, 9/23/25; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

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