Abstract
The purposes of this research were; (1) to study the Insight Meditation practice in Theravada Buddhism (2) to study the teaching of the Insight Meditation of Phrarajsithajarn (Thongbai Tabhassaro) of Watnaluang towards the community of Khamduang Sub-district, Bhanpheue District, Udonthani Province and (3) to study the influence on the teaching of the Insight Meditation of Phrarajsithajarn (Thongbai Tabhassaro) towards the community of Wat Naluang, Khamduang Sub-district, Bhanpue District, Udonthani Province. This research was the qualitative research by studying the data from the documents and interviewing for collecting the data.
The results of this research were found that the Insight Meditation was the practice in accordance with the Buddha’s teaching in the task of the Insight Meditation practice as the spiritual training by practicing to be free from the suffering and abandoning the mental incarceration because the Foundations of Mindfulness are the middle, main, uppermost, supreme and highest ways to be searched for the trainable creatures to get rid of the suffering by using the mindfulness for contemplation of the physical and spiritual pain and the contemplation of phenomena both inside and outside only.
For the teaching of the Insight Mediation, PhraRajsithajarn (Thangbai Pabhassaro) has the special ability to preach Dhamma rhetorically. Every time in his preaching Dhamma, there are a lot of people who have faith in him and come to listen to his preaching. With his character and personality, he has the tranquility and carries out his life in simple way and focuses on the benefits of others He has the ascetic life in the simple way, not to accumulate the things for himself. So he is the only senior Buddhist monk who is purified with precepts and should be admired.
The influence of the principle of teaching and the practical results in accordance with the preaching guidance of Phrarajsithajarn (Thongbai Pabhassaro) towards the community in Wat Nakhamluang, Khamduang Sub-district, Bhanphue District, Udonthani Province has been shown that the lives of the followers who enter for training has been changed into good features in accordance with Buddhist way and to carry on their lives with intelligence in according to the principle of morality and to know how to develop themselves in two aspects, that is, material and mental objects that must be done tighter in order to make equivalence that is the factor for supporting the duty performance in order to reach the goal efficiently. To carry on the good way of life should not be separated from the nature because the nature makes us understand the life easily. When we live with the nature, the nature will exist with us. When we do not destroy the nature, the nature will give us the benefits. So we have to live with the nature by assistance of each other, not to be greed until become to be selfish, to know how to give more than how to get, to know how to be sufficient, not to be carelessness, to be full of goodness and happiness.
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