Difference between yatha bhuta and vipassana Is there a difference between yatha bhuta and vipassana? Or are they just synonyms?
The two terms are not exactly synonymous although their context of usage is synonymous since both terms are associated with "seeing" ("passa") the same true reality. 

'Yathā bhūta' means "true nature", as is found in AN 11.2, namely: 'yathā (true) bhūta (nature) jānāmi (know) passāmi (see)*' 

"Vipassana" means "clear seeing" (namely, the Four Noble Truths, the true nature of suffering &amp; peace; &amp; the Three Characteristics, the true nature of conditioned things).