[This is a “back-post”; it is a work-in-progress, so it may change partially or completely, with materials added or taken away, over the next several days or weeks. This is “day 8(a)” of my stay at the Vipassana Meditation retreat. For general comments and summary, see “day 11.”]
Proprioception – our awareness of our own body, its position and extent and activity. It seems the main idea of vipassana is that through a very intensive proprioception, combined with a strong “equanimity” to the sensations involved, we can allow old karmic “sankharas” to “float to the surface” and “evaporate.” I find the metaphor lovely, but the whole thing is physiologically implausible.
