Is Kriya Yoga more advanced than Vipassana Meditation?

Q&A with Kundalini Kriya Master Yogiraj: How does Kriya Yoga compare with the Buddhist Vipassana meditation? Which is the more advanced practice for realizing enlightenment? Learn Kriya Yoga from a Living Master: Yogiraj SatGurunath Siddhanath http://www.hamsa-yoga.org/kriya-yoga Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[sotthapana]

I studied & practiced practiced Kriya yoga for 3 years, and then studied & practiced Vipassana for 5-6 years after that. I've taken a break of a couple years now since I practiced any meditation.

I would say Kriya yoga is great if you want to experience a taste of samadhi quickly, but if you're looking at the big picture of complete enlightenment (ending of the cycle of samsara), it is my experience that Vipassana deals with the root while Kriya yoga is more focused on the branches.

[HamsaYogi]

@sotthapana Really? Where and from whom did you receive your initiation into Kriya, if you don't mind me asking? Because the very specific purpose of Kriya is to remove the karma from the chakras which is blocking the kundalini from rising up the sushumnna nadi. No other technique does this. A taste of "samadhi quickly" trivializes the singularly most devastating experience in consciousness, which is ego-death into an infinite vastness of ecstasy. The kundalini is the root of the tree.

[oliverking90001]

I think he has a point but its a historical one fundamentally,I personally think Buddhism evolved considerably beyond simply being a mispronunciation. However it would be wrong to attempt to portray Buddhism as not having any Indian origin. Most directly Hinduism is a faith (God) centered religion, which Buddhism clearly is not. I think the attitude of Hindu yogis of a almost scientific understanding of mind/body is something which should be much more present in Buddhism but often is not.

[HamsaYogi]

@oliverking90001 Yogiraj is not Hindu, He is a Nath Yogi, and Kriya Yog is not a religion. It is a science; an alchemical technique for transforming the human mind into Divine Consciousness.

3~HY

[jo75tiger]

I wouldn't like to say which technique is more advanced than the other, this is what causes problems and each thinking in terms of ego. 'My' religion is better than 'your' religion, my 'belief' is better than 'yours'. Whatever works for you and takes you to enlightenment is the path that you have to follow.

[KEIMGUT]

Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना sanskrit.)

Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, it means insight into the nature of reality. A regular practitioner of Vipassana is known as a Vipassi (vipaśyin), is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by Gotama Buddha

[baitogogo]

@svallam: in annatalakhanasutta, dhammacakkappavattanasutta, and mahasatipatthanasutta , they are all in suttapitaka

[svallam]

@KEIMGUT Can you show a proof in any texts or anywhere that Gotama budda taught or used or spread the Vipassana

[emmaleez]

@vVRavenVv true, true.

[steelgila]

@thishan123 This is true but He also spent countless world age cycles as an advanced spiritual practicianer according to some of the Mahayana legends going through the rounds of incarnations as a Bodhisattva. He was also said to have sat at the feet of another Buddha called The Dipankara Buddha of another Universe and corresponding world cycle. It's incredible how we can even know such things! I don't know if thats just legend or if Buddha recounted that story himself.(?)

[steelgila]

I have read that there are two terms here that bear a relationship with each other and the first is Samatha.And this word has something to do with 'quiet sitting' or meditation as I recall D.T. Suzuki's explanation in one of his books "Intro To Zen Buddhism" I think. Vipassana means insight which is to say seeing things in thier true nature as our friend below puts it which is said to be the fruit of Samatha practice.

[crzymonkey64]

@jo75tiger while on one level that is absolutely true, on another level it is missing the point. It is like asking which is more advanced, medical school or first grade? The answer is obvious. Gurunath is not here to put other paths down, he is here to guide us into a state of Soul Consciousness in the most effective way possible.