A Study of the Vipassanābhāvanā Teaching’s Method of Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram) Mueang District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

This research paper entitled ‘A Study of Vipassanābhāvanā Teaching Method of Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram), Mueang District, Chiang Mai Province’ contains following objectives, studying the method of insight meditation practice in Theravada Buddhist scriptures, and the method of insight teaching of Insight Meditation Center at Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram), Muang district, Chiang Mai province. It was a qualitative research. Its findings revealed that Vipassana meditation is the systematic process of wisdom cultivation to realize the Noble truth. The most complete insight practice found in Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta dealing with bases of mindfulness, i.e.; 1) contemplation on body, 2) contemplation on feeling, 3) contemplation on mind and 4) contemplation on mental formations. Method of insight teaching of Meditation Center conducted by Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram) is the insight tradition based on which is consistent with the Buddha’s teaching in Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta focusing at the clear comprehensive awareness on present state, their rises and falls of all objects or Rūpa and Nāma falling into three common manners continuously and clearly until the mind appears united, passing through the various level of insight knowledge.