Abstract:
This thesis contains 2 objectives: 1) to study the contents and teachings in Phassāmūlākā sutta and 2) to study the development of Vipassana in Phassāmūlākā sutta. In this study, it was documentary research by studying information from Theravada Buddhist scriptures, related documents, collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and compiling and descriptive narrative.
The results of the research revealed that the Phassāmūlākā sutta is the discourse on 3 aspects of feeling: 1) pleasurable or Sukhavedanā, 2) unpleasurable or Dukkhavedanā, and 3) Non-pleasure or Ubekkhāvedanā which arises from contact tactile, having cause a sense of touch, having contact as a factor. Vedanā means feeling or experiencing of the objects. When categorized by the nature of the experience of feeling; happiness, unhappiness, equanimity, and contact means touch, impact, and right that caused internal sensations such as eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind, and external sensations such as form, sound, smell, taste, contact, mental objects, and consciousness.
The cultivation of Vipassana in Phassāmūlākā sutta is the determination of the senses arising through the six rectums by pursuing knowledge according to 3 feelings based on Vedanānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna: (1) determining the happy feeling referring to bodily happiness such as clearness, comfort, or feeling of inner happiness, (2) determining the bodily suffering such as pain, heat, cold, tiredness, or mental suffering, and (3) determining the neutral feelings, neither happiness nor suffering, or indifference of the mind as they really are. The benefits of Vipassana meditation practice found Phassamūlasutta was that it can lead to the elimination of defilements, the end of impurities, and finally attaining the path, the result, and Nibbana.