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Dharma/dhamma. The meaning of Dharma now has been narrowed and implies sectarian beliefs. 4. True learning comes only from our own experience. Others can guide, help to learn, but final learning comes only from our own effort. Benefits come only from practicing what has been learnt and not from the learning alone. Nothing that is truly beneficial comes without great effort. It cannot come only from praying or asking and getting favours from someone else. 5. Understanding theory is important for the proper practice of any technique. But merely understanding the theory on an intellectual plane cannot bring any benefits. It may help inspire someone to take the next step, but nothing more. 6. There should be no objections from any religion or sect to the technique of Vipassana as it uses only those features, common to all humans, and aims at what every religion and sect preaches as desirable. 7. All things that look different are made up similarly and ultimately from a single entity. All things are continuously changing, forming, ending and again forming and so on endlessly. Vipassana Concept of how misery is created . We get information from outside, through our senses - Vigyan • The information is noted in our system - Sandhya This produces certain sensations in the body - Vedana • We form a habit of reacting to each sensation as pleasant or unpleasant - Sanskar • We also have the habit of 'dwelling' on old miseries and 'recreating' them • These sanskar produce misery for our mind. It produces reactions, like weeping, abuse, aggression etc. that spread the misery outside to others also. Rural Development Through Education System 259