Vipassana Acharya Dr Paul Fleischman, An Ancient Path

"A person who meditates day after day, trying to focus their mind on the sensations of their body, thinking no doubt, forgetfully daydreaming no doubt, but constantly making an effort to return attention to the body and the body only, will, paradoxically but inevitably, be put in touch with mental contents that are revelatory and revolutionary. It is not just trauma that is stored in the body. Wisdom is stored in the body. Calm is stored in the body. Peace is stored in the body. All ideologies are stored in the body. All fears, all ignorance, everything that we call good or bad in ourselves is stored in the body. We are bodies just as much as we minds. All of us can be located, brought to life, met, understood, in our bodies, if and when our mind perseveringly, sensitively, and continuously travels through the body’s sensations. Where the mind contacts the body, the mind-body junction, there is always three-dimensional existence: sensation, mentations, and insight.

When you practice systemic, deep, focused, ongoing meditation on the sensations of the body, you begin to open up to your wholeself. You discover your unconscious. This is not merely the Freudian unconscious about your relationships in early childhood, but it includes all the previously unconscious thoughts and feelings that are stored in that body. All of these rise and become exposed at the surface of the mind. Everybody who takes a ten-day Vipassana course has a transformative, catalytic, integrative experience.

You have to keep meditating if you want meditation to continue to be valuable to you. You may well become reorganized to meditate morning and evening. Through meditation you begin to experience yourself as the causative agent, as the responsible executive in the design of your life. You are kept attuned to the linkage between thought, experience and conduct. The way you make choices, the way use your body, influences your mind, and the way you use your mind influences your body.Your life begins to resolve around the realization of Karma."

Introductory Talk on Vipassana Meditation as taught by Acharya S.N.Goenka