When you practice vipassana meditation, you must change to right view first.

Whatever happens in the body, we think it’s ‘me’; the same goes for the mind. Who is knowing? Who is being aware?

Mental quality, we also think that it’s ‘me’. It is wrong view when we identify with the body-mind process.

Because of the idea of self, a lot of strong defilements arise. If the mind is far away from ‘I’, it is more relaxed. If the mind is close to ‘I’, it burns and feels tense.

Because of wrong view, because of identification, all defilements grow and the quality of mind deteriorates – the mind feels tense, and it burns and suffers.