Is Vipassana a meditation practice or the result of practice?

[Adutiya]

That’s the way I’ve also understood it from almost every teacher, that Vipassana and samatha are the results of meditation, not the meditation itself.

@Brahmali

Any practice you do should in principle lead to a reduction in defilements. With a reduction in defilements you can expect to see things more clearly (vipassanā) and you can expect greater calm (samatha). This is one reason why samatha and vipassanā always must go together – they have the same cause. As these factors deepen, you will eventually get to samādhi.