A Study of the Vipassanābhāvanā Teaching Model and Method of Wat Kroen Kathin Buddhist Meditation Center, Ban Mi District, Lop Buri Province

Abstract

This article was a part of research paper entitled ‘A Study of the Vipassanābhāvanā Teaching Model and Method of Wat Kroen Kathin Buddhist Meditation Center, Ban Mi District, Lop Buri Province’ aiming at study mediation practicing method in the Theravada Buddhist scripture, and Vipassanabhavana teaching model of  Wat Kroen Kathin, Buddhist Meditation Center, Ban Mi district, Lop Buri province. The research was a kind of documentary method. The results of this research indicated that there are 2 types of insight practice, Samatha and Vipassana. The most complete insight meditation had been found in Mahasatipatthanasutta referring to the great discourse on the establishing of mindfulness. Problems and obstacles of Vipassana meditation teaching at Meditation Center at Wat Kroen Kathin, found that: 1) problems arising from some practitioners who do not have confidence from the beginning, 2) problems arising from age differences which became very hard to arrange the proper Dharma or organize appropriate activities, 3) problems arising from previous experiences of practical method of meditators, 4) problems arising from insight interview tests among the practitioners themselves because interview by themselves causes negative impact to the practitioners directly. For the analysis of patterns, methods of insight meditation teaching found that there were two patterns, i.e., one pattern that emphasizes on serenity or Samatha and the other pattern emphasizes insight based on Mahasatipatthana which is not different from other Buddhist meditation centers in Thailand. Buddhist Meditation Center of Wat Kroen Kathin, has adopted the same model to insight teaching methods. This pattern was not different from the main patterns found in the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.