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Meditation Practice - Buddhispano

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Conference<br />

from the gross level to the rened one, holistically, causing the holistically dynamic and unied ow<br />

having all the details of the information in the body of knowledge which is called the 15 Caranas<br />

and 8 Vijjs which qualied him to be one who is truly endowed with the Knowledge and Virtuous<br />

Conducts (Vijjcaranasampanno). The primary contexts of this article include 6 topics, namely:<br />

1. Outlines of learning and training in spiritual practices leading to liberation from<br />

suffering (dukkha)<br />

2. Clarication of the understanding about meditation practices that it is different from<br />

the Right Mental Concentration (Sammsamdhi) of the Lord Buddha<br />

3. The practice of the Right Mental Concentration (Sammsamdhi) which is the 3 levels of<br />

Supra-mundane (lokutara) related to the principles of the Triple Training (Trai-sikkh) 3<br />

4. The Noble Right Concentration (Sammriyosamdhi) which is conducted along<br />

the Nobel Eightfold Path (Sammriyo-ahagika-magga) bases on the foundation of<br />

the Four Enlightened Noble People.<br />

5. The appraisal of the twofold Direct Knowledge of the Noble Fruit of following of<br />

the 15 Caranas and 8 Vijj s which are Supra-mundane (lokutara).<br />

• Appraisal of the Noble Direct Knowledge with the structure of the 16 Direct<br />

Knowledges (Soasaña) consecutively from the beginning to the fruition of<br />

the path to Nirvana which leads to the completeness of the twofold of the fruit in<br />

the Right Direct Knowledge (sammña).<br />

• Appraisal of the mind which the Noble Fruit with the structure of the sixteen<br />

Cetopariyañnas consecutively from the beginning to the liberation to lead to<br />

the completeness of the twofold noble fruit as a part of the Right Direct Knowledge<br />

and Vision (Sammvimuttiñadassana).<br />

6. Following along the path of the Enlightenment of the Lord Buddha consecutively.<br />

1. Outline for learning of the training of spiritual practice leading to<br />

the liberation from suffering (dukkha)toNibbāna<br />

1.1 At present, people know the law of nature through the framework of physical science but during<br />

the Buddha’s time most people knew the Natural Law of Dharmahiti, i.e., the maintenance of all<br />

phenomena and appears in the Denition of the Dharma (Dhamma-niyma) in the famous writing of<br />

Venerable Phra Dhammapiaka under the quotation of “Dependent Co-origination (paiccasamuppda)<br />

illustrating that all things are interrelated to one another by the ux of causality which can be shortly<br />

expressed as the process of the dharma (dhammapavatti). All things that have form and abstract in<br />

the physical world and life are composed of name and form, expressing themselves as various Laws<br />

of the Nature, so-called the Dhammaniyma…” 4<br />

3<br />

In Pli: Te-sikkh<br />

4<br />

Venerable Phra Dhammapitaka (P.A. Payutto) (2002). “Buddhadhamma” (Original Edition), Thammasan Press,<br />

Thailand, pp. 92-93.<br />

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