Seeing Through – Ven Katukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero

A guide to Insight Meditation –

Insight Meditation paves the way to that penetrative wisdom which delivers the mind from bondage to Samsara. This bonage often baffles the thinker because there is a “catch” in the tools he has to take up to break it. Percepts are subtly elusive and concepts are tacitly delusive. So the insight worker has to forge his own tools to break this bondage, going the Buddha’s Middle Way.

“Seeing – Through” carries with it the implication that there is a deception to be seen through. The Buddha has compared consciousness to a magic – show. In order to overcome the spell of delusion created by the magic – show, one has to get an insight into its tricks. Consciousness has to be comprehended by wisdom which in capable of penetrating through the facade

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