AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING METHOD OF THE BUDDHA FOR ENLIGHTENING FROM COMMON PERSON TO BE SOTAPANNA NOBLE ONE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the method of teaching Vipassana to achieve the goal, Sotapanna Noble One which is the aim of the Buddha, by visualizing the process of insight knowledge with the Buddha's teachings. To attain this Noble One is an assurance that suffering and passions are reduced through the insight of Magga knowledge. The attainment of dharmas takes place through the development of mindfulness and awareness realizing true nature of all formations as being changing, suffering and non-self or rise and fall only. The important lesson taught by the Buddha while guiding the listeners was that at beginning he calms down mental distraction regarding worldly affairs, then guiding the right concentration at the present object, analyzing five aggregates with each factor in state of rise and fall, then bending mind to Three Common Manners with their own experience. It will no longer leading to Magga knowledge of insight. For example, process of Sotapanna attainment of Anathapindika goes in the same way, the Buddha taught him by Anupubbikathā or Gradual Instruction and Four Noble Truth. This enlightened his eye of Dhamma completely abandoning three fetters; personality-view of individuality, doubt and adherence to rules and rituals, having confidence in Triple Gems. Throughout his life, he supported Buddhism propagation, contributing the benefits to family and relatives to earning life as the Buddha’s follower.