mkehrt comments on Understanding vipassana meditation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 05 October 2010 05:45:18PM 0 points [-]

Could we avoid using untranslated terms from eastern languages? The name "vipassana" may be useful as a search term, but it's worse than useless for understanding what it actually refers to. If you called it "affect monitoring meditation", a lot more people would understand what you meant. This is a general problem in all English writings about meditation: they're full of untranslated words that make them seem mystical, but hinder comprehension.

Comment author: mkehrt 08 October 2010 08:37:46AM 0 points [-]

The word translates to "insight" and the term "insight meditation" is sometimes used for this form of mediation.