Abstract
This Research paper has 2 objectives; to study the Dhamma Principles in Chachakka Sutta and to study the Vipassana Meditation methods appear in Chachakka Sutta by collecting information from Buddhist scriptures and other concerned documents. All these data are brought to compose in descriptive style and to be checked by experts, findings were that.
Chachakka Sutta is a discourse that appear in the Suttantapitaka’s Majjhimanikaya Discourses Group, in Book 14th of Mahachulalongkornrajvidyalaya’s Thai version of Tipitaka. The name of the sutta is set according to the contents of the six types of dhamma in the Groups of Six. The Buddha delivered this sutta to Bhikkhus at the Chetawan Monastery. This is a guide to chastity. The Sutta is classified in the category of PraJaya. The formation of the Sutta was interrogation. The Buddha raise up the questions and answer the questions thoroughly. The six types of dhamma in the Groups of Six contain 1) Group of the internal Six-Sense-Bases, 2) Group of the external Six-Sense-Bases, 3) Group of the Six-Consciousnesses, 4) Group of the Six-bases for Contact, 5) Group of the Six-Feelings 6) Group of the Six-Cravings.
Practicing Vipassana Meditation in Chachakka Sutta is a way to practice a purely Vipassana Meditation. This will be done according to the principles of Four Foundations of Mindfulness, these are contemplating the body in the body, contemplating feelings in feelings, contemplating mind in mind, contemplating phenomena in phenomena with diligence, clear understanding and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and mental pain in the world. The practitioner must determine the dharma that appears continually in order to study the present of the Nãma and Rũpa. The cause of the wisdom of the truth of the Nãma and Rũpa by being the Three Characteristics. Thus, the practitioner will be bored, relieved from lust, free from the defilements and finally free form the suffering.
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