Reconsidering ‘Momentariness’ as Savabhava of Absolute Truth for Insight Cultivation

Abstract

This article aims to present the concept of ‘momentariness’ as the absolute truth analyzing both the principle and the process of mental development based on insight meditation in order to create wisdom, it is to experience Tilakkhana which will lead to enlightenment.

          Buddhism ontologically stands on insisting the momentary absolute truth. It is the key for mental development for realizing the truth preventing delusion and attachment in both of past and future involvement caused by the power of desire, wrong view. The momentariness can be applied for seeing the coming and going objects presenting at right now as they really appear. It may find that everything is included within on moment. If one falls to follow the thought over the present moment, he will fall to grasp other emotions without mindfulness and awareness. The momentariness is not the time which is objective and conventional but the functioning of five aggregates included all phenomena within the moment of rise and fall of consciousness while the momentariness is subjective and absolute. Thinking on separating one situation to another situation continuously causes the wrong view on linking them as Self. It is obvious that one situation arises and falls, then generating another situation as one moment with consciousness. This is consciousness’ function not concern about the thinker who sees rise and fall. In practical aspect, there must be unity of all of rise and fall, world existence, thought, mind, mattes as the absolute truth within one momentariness, therefore it must be subjective not objective (thought) caused by conventional language to practitioners.