How to do Vipassana Meditation, and why?

There is a lot of fuzz around the in the community of meditation regarding vipassana meditation. There are a lot of retreats for vipassana meditation everywhere. So, lets understand this meditation technique right from the roots and know how to perform it. A little history lesson for Vipassana Meditation! Gautam Buddha was the practitioner of the vipassana meditation, and he was the one who propagated it, and might as well have invented it, but we can’t say for sure on that! The Buddhism religion started with the foundation and that foundation was Vipassana. What Buddha preached was not Buddhism, is was vipassana. However, the religion came out of the people who followed Buddha. How to do vipassana meditation? Vipassana means to observe yourself . Vipassana meditation is very much similar to breathing meditation or awareness meditation, and many aspects of those meditations are the outcome of vipassana meditation technique. So, let's get to the core...