Vipassana Meditation : Lectures On Insight Meditation by Venerable

As we proceed, our mindfulness becomes more constant, uninterruptedand powerful. As the mindfulness becomes constant and powerful, theconcentration becomes deeper and stronger. When the concentration becomesdeep and strong, then our realization or penetrating insight into mentalprocesses and physical processes become clear. So we come to realize manyseries of lifting movements arising and passing away one after another. Duringsuch experience, we come to understand that no part of the process ispermanent or everlasting. Every process of movement is subject toimpermanence (anicca) - arising and passing away very swiftly, so it is not agood process; it is bad. Then we come to realize one of the threecharacteristics of the mental and physical process, i.e. dukkha. When werealize the impermanent and suffering nature of this physical process ofmovement, then we do not take it to be an everlasting entity - a person, abeing, a soul or a self. This is the realization of the anattá, no-soul, no-self,non-ego nature of bodily and mental processes. So we realize the threecharacteristics of mental and physical phenomena, Impermanence (anicca),suffering (dukkha) and no-soul or no-self (anattá).Realization of the Noble TruthsAt that moment he has completely developed the Noble Eightfold Path:1. Samma-ditthi (Right Understanding)2. Samma-sankappa (Right Thought)3. Samma-vaca (Right Speech)4. Samma-kammanta (Right Action)5. Samma-ajiva (Right Livelihood)6. Samma-vayama ( Right Effort)7. Samma-sati (Right Mindfulness)8. Samma-samadhi (Right Concentration)From the time he can concentrate the mind to a large extent on the objectof meditation, i.e., mental-physical process, he is developing this NobleEightfold Path (though not completely). How? When he focuses the mind onthe movement of the foot, he has to make a mental effort; that mental effort is'Right Effort' (Samma-vayama). Because of that mental effort, he can focus hismind on the movement of the foot. That mindfulness is 'Right Mindfulness'(Samma-sati) because it leads him to the right understanding of the mentaland physical processes. When his mind is focused on the movement of the foot,9