"Original Research" | Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha
To add anything into Wikipedia, they require a reference to some published source. They won't accept "original research", something really new that's not yet published anywhere. Insight meditation (vipassanā) is the opposite of Wikipedia: Real insight (bhāvanā-mayā-paññā) has to be something new that we realize on our own. Just thinking the same words, remembering the concepts (saññā) we read in the Suttas or heard from the great meditation masters doesn't qualify. We have to be willing to investigate fearlessly without bias, and accept whatever the real data is. Whether we like it or not, whether it agrees with prejudice, fashion, expectations, hopes and wishes or not. We have to see the data as it truly is, and then draw the conclusions from it. www.dhammagiri.org.au www.facebook.com/dhammagiri-forest-hermitage www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw www.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive