Vipassana
The term Vipassana is commonly translated as "insight," but this term is also frequently misunderstood because it is commonly translated as "insight." Vipassana is often confused with intuition because of this. The term vipassana is also often confused with the psychological meaning of the term "insight." In psychology, insight is understood as a sudden understanding of the solution to a problem. In psychotherapy it is understood as bringing to consciousness the unconscious motive of a conscious action. Vipassana, on the other hand, is the introspective awareness of the subjective experience. This subjective experience consists of one's reaction to environmental stimulation. This reaction can be broadly analyzed into four parts: sensory perception, thinking, feeling, and acting. Vipassana, therefore, is to see this experience in its parts, as an impersonal process of activity, without a "self" being involved. In other words, vipassana is "systematic introspection," resulting in the realization of the "impersonality" of all phenomena. Therefore vipassana can be translated as "in-sight," provided we know what it means; namely, "mental vision focused within." Yet the use of this word can be misleading because it is often used to mean seeing the inner essence of an object perceived, while vipassana is seeing the inner subjective experience of perception itself. Vipassana is an introspective method of removing the notion of "self" from the mind, in order to free the mind of selfishness.