Vipassana: the Buddha's tool to probe mind and body.
Progress in Brain Research January 1, 2008 Dhananjay V Chavan
Vipassana, a first-person method taught by the Buddha for examining conscious experience, is most thoroughly detailed in the Satipatthana Sutta. This chapter reviews salient features of Vipassana practice as described in that text. The authors suggest that formal first-person methods may become necessary for tracking internal subjective states in the scientific study of consciousness, and that reviewing classical methods could guide further research.