Abstract

             This thesis was a quantitative research having two objectives; 1) to study of comprehension of walking meditation for insight development and 2) to study problems, obstacles and suggestions for comprehension of walking meditation for insight development of Buddhist Laity at Wat Hathainares, Phutthamonthon district, Nakhon Pathom province. The samples used in this study were 80 persons, woman laity was 60 (75%) and men laity was 20 (25%). The collected data was taken from questionnaire which had total coefficient of reliability at .981. The statistics used for analyzing data was descriptive statistics by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation for explaining data. For the comparison of reliability, researcher used inferential statistics; t-test dependent, analysis of covariance: ANOVA for content analysis. From the study, it was found that;

                 Comprehension of walking meditation with mindfulness while standing, lifting up heel, lifting Foot, stepping, downing, touching, pressing and a ware when turning was in high level, comprehension on lifting up heel was in high score while press observing was least.

                 Comparison on comprehension on walking meditation of women laity totally was in higher than men and not different, both women and men who has different age, education and experience in insight practice was statistically different at 0.05 while Buddhist laity who had different occupation found not different.

                 For the obstacles of comprehension of walking meditation, contemplation on walking manner and returning manner mostly were in need to know the right way to observe with mindfulness and process of practice in order to have still standing and cut off the period of insight practice with standing gesture for relief from back pain, foot, ankles and num. The suggestion was that insight master should have proper medias for teaching theory and practical method for degrade body weight to build up right comprehension on insight meditation in other gestures; standing, walking and returning.

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