An Analytical of Saḷāyatana Practice for the Abandonment of Papañca-Dhamma in the Development of Vipassanā Meditation Practice

Abstract

This thesis has three objectives: 1) to study the saḷāyatana, papañca-dhamma, and vipassana meditation in Theravāda Buddhism. 2) to study the methods of practice in the Saḷāyatana for the abandonment of Papañca-Dhamma in the In the practice of Vipassana meditation and 3) to analyze the methods of practice in the Saḷāyatana for the abandonment of Papañca-Phamma in the In the practice of Vipassana meditation. This study is a documentary research based on data collected from the Tipiṭaka, commentaries, scriptures, and related documents. The data were analyzed by means of content analysis, and the findings were presented using a descriptive analytical method. The results reveal that: (1) the the Saḷāyatana, which constitute the basis of perception, give rise to a cognitive process beginning with contact (phassa), leading to feeling (vedanā), and further to craving (taṇhā), which develops into proliferative defilements (papañca-dhamma) that obstruct the realization of reality. The practice of Vipassana meditation according to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna 4) involves mindful awareness of phenomena as they truly are in the present moment, thereby cutting off the stream of papañca-dhamma and abandoning craving, conceit, and wrong view (2) the methods of practice in the Saḷāyatana for the abandonment of Papañca-Dhamma in the In the practice of Vipassana meditation consists of establishing mindfulness of sensory contact at the six sense bases through the direct discernment of mind and matter (nāma-rūpa), contemplating them as characterized by the Three Characteristics (tilakkhaṇa), and cessation, abandons nāma-rūpa in order to eradicate the defilements papañca-dhamma (3) the analysis of practice in the Saḷāyatana for the abandonment of Papañca-Dhamma in the In the practice of Vipassana meditation, the methods for practicing the sixteen stages of insight knowledges (ñāṇa 16) : separating of nāma-rūpa to abandon sakkāya-diṭṭhi, understanding the causes and conditions of nāma-rūpa dispels doubt, seeing the three characteristics of existence in the nāma-rūpa, and weaken papañca-dhamma through insight into arising and passing away, danger, harm and feeling weary of detachment the desire to escape from nāma-rūpa, one abandons them. When form (rūpa) and name (nāma) are abandoned, the path to enlightenment arises, leading to the realization of Nirvana and abandoning all papañca-dhamma, this is complete cessation (samuccheda pahāna). Application in daily life by mindfully and clearly knowing the phenomena arising at the six sense bases as having arising, persisting, and ceasing, it proceeds according to causes and conditions, by not clinging or attaching, that is able to abandon the papañca-dhamma: namely craving, conceit, and wrong view.