Abstract

This thesis was the qualitative research and the researchers’s main purposes were to study the methods to practice the Insight meditation in accordance with the principles of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Theravada Buddhism, to study the methods to practice the Insight Meditation in accordance with the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of WatVipassanaPhachun, BanMor Sub-District, Srichiangmai District, Nongkhai Province and to analyze the methods how to practice the Insight Meditation in accordance with the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of WatVipassanaPhachun, BanMor Sub-District, Srichiangmai District, Nongkhai Province.

The results of the research were found that the present principles of the Insight Meditation practice in the present in Thailand consisted of various forms in accordance with the methods established by the instructors as suitable for the intrinsic nature of persons in order to be easy for practice and the practitioners’ objectives in different way in compliance with the situation of society and culture and environment by the objectives to train the mind for calm from the defilements and for creation of mindfulnes and wisdom and knowing the truths. The methods of practicing the Insight Meditation in accordance with the principles of the principles of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of WatVipassanaPhachun, Banmo Sub-District, Srichiangmai District, Nongkhai Province were in the groups of the methods how to practice the ground for mental culture in the forms of movement or constant moving (Vai-Ning) as the dominant that is different from the methods of the methods of other practical places, that is, to create the mindfulness and clear comprehension by self-knowledge with the physical movement and awareness of mind, that is, the important principles are to put the mindfulness on the four foundations, that is, body, feeling, perception, mind and Dhamma by aiming at practicing the mindfulness to create the mindfulness, Meditation and wisdom to realize of the forms and mental factors or Five Aggregates. When knowing the natural condition, we will release the misunderstanding from holding all compounded things.

The results of study were found that the methods how to practice the Insight Meditation of WatVipassanaPhachun, Banmo Sub-District, Srichiangmai District, Nongkhai Province applied the new practical methods for easiness and convenient for practice, but they have to be in the territory of the Four Foundations of mindfulness in the pititaka scripture of Theravada Buddhism by having the main principles, that is, for the practitions to get rid of the suffering to reach Nippana that is regarded as the highest result of Buddhism. The second objectives are four categories, namely, to make practitioners obtain the meditation, patience, effort, and wisdom in doing their work and to be able to solve the problem of live with efficiency and to be able to get rid of the mental suffering and to create the strength of mind to be patient in carrying their lives with Dhamma. And the same time, they build up the wholesome in the mundane level for the practitioners to preserve the status of humanity because the practitioners have the mindfulness to know the way of mind before death and in order to make the practitioners know what the Insight meditation is, how the practice is and whether the result will occur or not?

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