Michal Pagis, "Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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The Importance of Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana meditation is a way of deconstructing or constructing, as you said, the self. From a sociological point of view, the self is a social construct. We relate to ourselves as others relate to us. It's very paradoxical because you need the group, you need others in order to forget about others. You need to be with other meditators, meditating together in order to find that spot in which you can relax your anxieties about the self.
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