Abstract:
This research paper contained 2 objectives; 1) to study the teachings found in Salāyatanavibhanga-sutta, and 2) to study the Vipassana meditation practice in Salāyatanavibhanga-sutta by study of Theravada Buddhist texts such as, Tipitaka, commentaries, sub-commentaries, texts and other involving books such as Visuddhimagga etc. then verified by expert, reviewed and complied with descriptions.;
The findings showed that Salātanavibhanga-sutta is a discourse dealing with the principal analysis which the practitioners must understand. The analyses are six Āyanatana or internal senses, six outer senses, six consciousness, six contacts, eighteen Manopavicāra and thirty-six Sattapada. They must understand these principles by its characters, functions, and how 12 sensual organs work. There are other teachings related and grouped in such teaching which enable to use as meditative objects of insight development for the advance of insight knowledge which leads to complete realization.
The method of in the Salātanavibhagga-sutta was the clear and systematic understanding of sensual organs as the bases of insight investigation. This method is Vipassanāyānika practice which refers to pure insight meditation called Suddhavipassanā using only momentary concentration for observing any present Nama and Rupa as the meditative object. This practice requires the gradual training on Bodhipakkhiyadhamma or enlightenment factors, conditional practice to know or to experience of truth realization as the tool of practice. In practical codes, when the six internal sensual contacts, outer six sensual contact, six consciousness and six contacts occur, and whenever happiness, unhappiness, neutral feeling arising from six contact as its factors, the meditator observing them all as they really are as impermanent, suffering, and non-self will be soon bored, detaching from lust, finally liberated and freed from all suffering.