The Impact of Insight Meditation on the Development of Mental Health

The present paper has been investigated the effect of meditation, also known as Vipassana meditation on mental health. To understand these ends and means, practice of Vipassana meditation and how Vipassana meditation helps us to live a noble and blissful life. In addition, the present paper has also tried to find out the importance of mental health for the individual and the society as a whole. The social ripple effect showing the impact of our actions has been described to explore the unseen effects of our speech and actions. Our world become peaceful to enjoy and live happily. That’s why change should start from every individual. If the jungle has dried up and we want to revive it, we have to water each and every tree in that jungle. If we want world peace, we must learn to be peaceful ourselves. Finally, this work has been compared the Buddhist philosophy and Western psychology to see how the two fields are similar or different with respect to the concept of mental health. Both the development of the ideal healthy person and the ways in which individuals deviate from it has been culturally defined. Buddhist psychology argues that the root causes of suffering can be permanently rooted out, while Western psychology states that they are immutable, rigid and irreversible. From this point of view, Vipassana meditation’s ability to calm the human mind, its ability to transform its turbulence into peace with better energy, makes it an important mental health remedy and an excellent tool for potential human development to achieve higher mental health standards, mainly an attempt has been made to throw light on how attitudes are formed.