The Insight Meditation and Threefold Trainng.

Abstract

The relationship between insight meditation and the Threefold Training are studied by the meditator to understand higher morality, mentality, and wisdom by means of following morality and making one’s own mind stable without sensitivity towards any incoming defilements.  The Four Foundations of Mindfulness are practiced until the meditator gets wisdom to correctly understand the truth (Sammāditthi). Corporeality and the mentality are seen as rising and falling (Ditthivisuddhi). The meditator has to understand the Three Characteristics step by step until he finally recognizes all corporeality and the mentality as dangers. As a result, mind is full of boredoms and is replaced by greater attempt to be free from the corporeality and mentality. When the meditator has a continuous great attempt till frees oneself from the corporeality and mentality, he will finally cross over the worldly manhood, get Noble Paths and Noble Fruits, and truly release from the self-attachment (Sakkāyaditthi), any wrong practice will never exist (Silapataparamāsa), and doubts in Triple Gems and practice will be ceased (Vicikicchā).  Insight meditation, therefore, leads to the complete Threefold Training by means of The Four Foundations of Mindfulness i.e. because The Four Foundations of Mindfulness must be through practicing the principle of middle path, observing the precepts, having right effort, being mindful, concentrating and finally gaining wisdom towards liberation (Vimutti).