http://www.lionsroar.com/why-meditate/
I see some people have liked this post. I would like to mention, that I have found this practice to be really useful for myself personally. Although I meditated yoga-style for 18 years and made a lot of progress that way, I’ve only done Vipassana for about a month and have found it enables me to discover and heal childhood trauma and other wounds, and release the egoic desires, aversions, and identifications which turned difficult situations into actual trauma and suffering, much faster than I was ever able to do through the yoga.
Not to say that the yoga wasn’t useful; it was and is. Currently it has enabled my mind under the direction of my consciousness, to be the “rubber room” I always thought I would need in order to heal this stuff. I don’t think it would be nearly so easy to peacefully and gracefully deal with the things coming up if I hadn’t developed those skills and understandings first.
Do you need to learn yoga to do Vipassana? I imagine it all depends on who you are and what your history and the makeup of your mind is. All I want to communicate here is that I’ve found each of these practices to be really helpful for me.
Enlightenment 