THE CRITERIA FOR THE STATE OF BEING THE INSIGHT MEDITATION IN THAI SOCIETIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRINCIPLES OF THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS

Abstract

This thesis is of 3 objectives ; namely ; 1. to study the Insight Meditation in the 3 Baskets, 2. to study the Insight Meditation of 5 branches in Thai societies 3. to analytically study the Insight Meditation of 5 branches in Thai societies according to the principles of the four foundations of Mindfulness. From the analytical study, the result of the research can be concluded by bringing the principle of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness for the criteria for deciding the state of being the Insight Meditation consisting of 5 methods in Thai societies as follows : 1. The Method of Buddho The practice in the line of Buddho is the 7th step of Insight Meditation, because it is the consideration of the frame of bone with the high consideration as a base in developing the Insight Meditation which is the way of consideration to know. When one considers according to the method Satipatthana one is considered to be kayampassi, one who follows to see the body. In the part of the bone which in one of 32 states, will to know and can connection with other manners related to the body completely up is the state of relaxing. 2. The Method of ãnãpãnasati Development of the Insight of the type of ãnãpãnasati which beings with 12th step and is recognized as the real Insight Knowledge at the 13 the step, that is the impermanence of piti(Rapter) sukha (Happiness) and jhãna (Absorption). When it is considered according to the method of Satipatthana, it is set up in Vedanãnupassanã (Contemplation of Feelings), ready to see the birth and the extinction is Vedanã (Feeling)and in Tanhã (Craving). 3. The Method of Rising and Falling The practice according to the method of rising and falling is regarded as the Insight Meditation. Beginning with the focusing mindfulness on rising and falling which is the moment in which the practitioner can realize that the states of rising, falling, sitting and touching are the form or the materiality, but the realization of the states of rising and falling, sitting and touching is the mentality or formless. After that, the realization of Vedanã (Feeling), Citta (Mind) and Dhamma (Phenomena). The Khanika Samadhi or the Momentary Concentration is enough, and this kind of concentration can be doveloped up to the state of Upacava Samadhi or Approaching Concentration. 4. The Mothod of ‘SammãArahan’ or the Method of ‘Dhammakãya’ This method is not the Vipassana, though the Vipassana is mentioned somewhere and sometime, it is not yet clear. There is one sentence : “Dhammakãya is the body that is beyond the three general characteristics of impermanence, suffering and selflessness and this dhammakaya is known as seeing the general chacteristies. Thus, when comparing ‘Dhamakaya’ with the Four Foundations of mindfulness, the Vipassanã cannot be found in the Satipatthãna. 5. The Method of the Luang Phor Thien’s Bodily Movements This method is like the Method of Rising and Falling; that is; To see through focusing mindfulness on bodily movements for so strong mindfulness that the mindfulness is able to penetrate and realize the rising and falling of thinking and as well as stop the thinking. The seeing is regarded as the Vipassanã based on concentration because it is beyond the Sammatisacca (Falsr Truth) and penetrates into the Paramatthasacca (Real Truth)