Hello Hasituppada, and thank-you for your excellent views, beliefs and
concepts regarding Buddhist contemplative practices. A suttic reference would be
just fine to bolster those views, beliefs and concepts. What you described
sounds like the practice of Satipatthana, not Vipassana ™.

My understand of Buddhist contemplative practices comes from the three Sati
Suttas (see the URLs below). There I have found no evidence that the Buddha
ever considered insight (vipassana) a meditation practice, however it does seem
clear from reading these suttas that insight (vipassana) is an attainment that
is a product of practicing sati until right absorption (sama-samadhi) emerges.

If you have not read the Buddha's three discourses on meditation (Sati),
Thanissaro Bhikkhu's translations of them are available online at these URLs:

Anapanasati Sutta (MN 118)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn118.html
Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn010.html
Maha-satipatthana Sutta (DN. 22)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/digha/dn22.html

I have rendered a few small improvements in the translations of these suttas
and they are also available online at Ecstatic_Buddhism at this URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ecstatic_Buddhism/files/

Best regards,

Jeff Brooks

In a message dated 3/12/04 1:49:24 AM, Pali@yahoogroups.com writes:

<< Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:19:14 -0000
From: "hasituppada" <hasituppada@...>
Subject: Re: Common Misconceptions of Jhana

Dear Jeff,

What Buddha discovered was the Vipassana Meditation. In satta
bhojanga, one factor is dhamma vicaya, that is the investigztion of
dhamma. And right along insight meditation the meditator
contemplates on one ( or more) of the four foundations of
mindfulness, and becomes aware of the paramatta dhamma and the
different stages of mental development that enables him to see the
impermanance, unsatisfactoriness and no-self as a reality.

That is how it really is but if you have some other idea of Buddhist
meditation and if your understanding is different it is well and
good,talking about it seems to lead us nowhere. Therefore, I wish
you well in your spiritual path.

with metta,
Hasituppada >>