An Integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna Teaching for Ordination Applicants of the Preceptor

Abstract

This article was a part of dissertation entilted “An Integration of Tacapañ-cakakammaṭṭhāna Teaching for Ordination Applicants of the Preceptor” contained 3 objectives: 1) study Acapañcakakammaṭṭhāna or five basic meditation including skin etc. in Theravadin Buddhism, 2) study the roles of the preceptor who teaches Tacapañ-cakakammaṭṭhāna to the new ordained Bhikkhus and 3) illustrating an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna teaching for ordination applicants of the preceptor. It was qualitative research by document survey and personnel depth-interview. The results showed that an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna for ordination applicants of the preceptor was that the preceptor gives teaching after all applicants asking for their ordinations, advising the new Bhikkhus to comprehend this Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna as per a trick of meditation and wisdom cultivation for new ordained saying each word that Kesā, Lomā, Nakhā, Dantā, Taco in forward order, Taco, Dantā, Nakhā, Lomā, Kesā in reverse order. It is true that such concentration helps a new ordained to abandon sensual pleasure indulgence. For an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna teaching for new ordained, it was that the new ordained must observe hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, and skins as dirty, a source of diseases. Having completed basic Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna practice, a new ordained will head to Noble Path, Fruits and Nibbana in the end. The preceptor must also continue training by emphasizing basic meditation as a ground, a root of all meditation, enabling a new ordained to subdue the sextual desire and reducing the degree of lust, aggression, and delusion.