Sometimes, because it was lost from India for such a long time, some people do not understand this technique of Vipassana properly and criticise it. They consider the idea of liberating themselves by removing their own defilements as egoistic. Oh no! This meditation technique will take one to a stage where the ego dissolves completely and there is only anatta (egolessness). The idea of “I”, “mine”, “my soul” will come to an end. Liberating oneself is not egoism but a responsibility. Just as one bathes every morning because one is responsible for keeping one’s body clean. Who else will do it? Is one inflating the ego by bathing daily? Where is the question of inflating the ego? It is one’s own responsibility. If the body becomes dirty, it becomes diseased. It has to be kept free from disease, therefore, one should clean it. Similarly, the mind has become impure. Who has made the mind impure? It is one’s own responsibility. One did it out of ignorance because one did not have proper understanding. Now the job of cleaning it is one’s own responsibility. One has to do it oneself; no one else can do it. vridhamma.org/UploadNewsletter/PDF/en2001-06.pdf
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