Vipassana means “to see things as they really are.” According to dhamma.org, Vipassana is
…a way of self-transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that continuously interconnect and condition the life of the mind. It is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the common root of mind and body that dissolves mental impurity, resulting in a balanced mind full of love and compassion.
To really “learn” vipassana, one goes to a ten-day retreat conducted in silence. I would love to do that. For now, though, I will take my fifteen minutes of guided meditation. I did not feel less scatterbrained, but I did feel alert, though it is late and I am tired. I felt like I was getting a bit better at catching myself daydreaming/anxietydreaming.
In other news, it has only been one day without a vapor barrier under the house and the windows are fogged up and sweaty tonight. Engineering and the push of the natural world and elements into our constructions (real and figurative) is a wild conversation to observe. That plastic had to be 25 years (or 43) old, and yet it kept this damp away. And how different the house will be when a new barrier is down. The dirt beneath us is breathing deeply, too.