The body and soul I presume are considered separate in Vipassana.

Q: The body and soul I presume are considered separate in Vipassana. Can they remain that way always? 

Guruji: Let us forget for a minute whatever the philosophical belief is behind this statement and focus on two truths that lie before us. 

There are impermanent and permanent realities. 

The realm of the permanent is eternal, absolute, and one may call it soul, god, state of nibbana or moksha. 

Whatever name one knows it by, it is the eternal state where nothing ever changes; it is as it is forever. 

🌷 Everything else is in the impermanent realm where everything is in a state of flux, always changing, constant creation and destruction. 

The difference between the two is not to be understood by the intellect, but is to be directly experienced. 

All along one has been increasing the stock of craving and aversion; now with practice one will start purifying the mind, reducing the stock of defilements till one finally moves beyond the realm of the impermanent. 

Only then will one experience that which is absolute and permanent, never changing. 

As this state cannot be put in words, if it is ever described in words it will be misleading. 

It must be experienced and Vipassana can give that experience. 

Of course it takes time to reach that state since one does not know how big the stock of defilements which one has accumulated is, and how long it will take to clear that stock. 

But the journey from impermanent to permanent has to begin now.