Transcript The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation

The Dynamics of Theravāda
Insight Meditation
Topics:
1)Three modern day insight meditation traditions
2)The insight knowledges
3)Insight in the early discourses
Satipaṭṭhāna meditation objects
Mahasi Sayadaw
postures
S.N. Goenka
feelings
Pa Auk Sayadaw
elements
Time dedicated to the formal development
of mental tranquillity:
Mahasi Sayadaw
none
S.N. Goenka
some
Pa Auk Sayadaw
much
Topics:
1)Three modern day insight meditation traditions
2)The insight knowledges
3)Insight in the early discourses
The ten insight knowledges
in the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Comprehension
Rise and fall
Dissolution
Fear
Disadvantage
Disenchantment
Wish for deliverance
Reflection
Equanimity (re. formations)
Conformity
sammasana
udayabbaya
bhaṅga
bhaya
ādīnava
nibbidā
muñcitukamyatā
paṭisaṅkhā
saṅkhārupekkhā
anuloma
The stages of insight
in the Vimuttimagga (解脫道論)
1
2
3
4
5
6
Comprehension
Rise and fall
Dissolution
Fear
& disadvantage
& disenchantment
Delight in deliverance
& equanimity
Conformity
廣觀
起滅
滅
畏
過患
厭離
樂解脫
捨
相似
The stages of insight
in the Paṭisambhidhāmagga
1
2
3
4
5
Comprehension
Rise and fall
Dissolution
Fear
& disadvantage
Wish for deliverance
& equanimity (form.)
sammasana
udayabbaya
bhaṅga
bhaya
& ādīnava
muñcitukamyatā
& saṅkhārupekkhā
The insight-knowledges and the three characteristics
1) Comprehension

all three

2) Rise and fall
3) Dissolution
impermanence
4) Fear
5) Disadvantage
6) Disenchantment
7) Wish for deliverance

unsatisfactoriness

not-self
8) Reflection
9) Equanimity
10) Conformity
Topics:
1)Three modern day insight meditation traditions
2)The insight knowledges
3)Insight in the early discourses
The basic dynamics of insight:
all contemplated phenomena are impermanent

what is impermanent is unsatisfactory

what is unsatisfactory is not-self