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Abstract
This thesis has three objectives; to study of Evils (Māra) in the Theravāda Buddhist Scriptures, to study of the Insight Meditation Practice in the Theravada Buddhist Scriptures and to study of the Insight Meditation Practice for the Abandonment of Evils (Māra) as Taught in the Theravāda Buddhist Scriptures. Clarified data are taken from the Theravāda Buddhist Scriptures and other related documents, then composed, summarized, analyzed, explained in details, corrected and verified by Buddhist scholars. From the study it found that;
Evils (Māra) has five categories which are: 1) Kilesa-māra: the Māra of defilements, state which made mind seedy which are greed, anger, delusion, etc.,
2) Khandha-māra: the Māra of the Aggregates, the Five Aggregates which are Rupa-khandha (form), Vedanā-khandha (sensation, Saññā-khandha (perception), Sańkhāra-khandha (mental formations), Viññāna-khandha (consciousness) that is impernence, suffering and being Anattatā (non-self), 3) Abhisańkhāra-māra: the Māra of Kamma formations; as the Karmic force that influence with Samsāra, 4) Devaputta-māra: the Māra as deity; deva (god) who obstructs making merit, which Vasavatti-Māra is a head of Māra, 5) Maccu-māra: the Māra as death; as death cause the destruction in making merit.
Doctrine of Insight Meditation Practice means the purification of Sila for practitioner; absolutely by means of nothing is greater. Therefore as a foundation of insight enlargement and for who practice in Vipassanā Bhāvanā is naturally discipline with merely utmost pure. The most important issue is consciousness with the contemplation of form and name continuousy, the wisdom will be develop and can realize the impermanence (Aniccaṃ) suffering (Dukkhaṃ) and being non-self (Anattā) from all natural conditions. To gain the knowledge within fundamental of nature that only the five Aggregates or form and name exist.
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Insight Meditation Practice for the Abandonment of Evils (Māra) is the Four Foundations of Mindfulness which are the contemplation of : 1) Kāya or body, 2) Vedanā or feeling 3) Citta or mind 4) Dhamma or mind-objects, to determine form, feeling, perception, compound things and soul for all concerned as form and name that is impermanence or unstable, suffering and being non-self.
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In consequence of the practice, the major issue is the Mindfulness of form and name as a guideline to examine the advance of mind, the contemplation of body, the contemplation of feeling, the contemplation of mind, the complation of mind-objects. Then mindfulness along with diligent, awareness, consciousness, then covetousness (Abhijjhā) and mental displeasure (Domanassa) can be eliminated by mindfulness through Insight Meditation Practice.
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