緬甸帕奧禪林復甦「入出息念」禪定――「禪修行動」調查研究=Reviving of The Mindfulness-of-Breathing Samādhi at Pa-Auk Monastery in Myanmar: A Field Work Study of Meditation-in-Action
Samathayantika and Vipasanāyantika of Theravada in Myanmar are viewed as two opposing camps in the academia. Their opposition has been shaped into inflamed assumption among those Myanmar Sayadawgyis’ opposing views in two kinds of Buddhist meditation traditions. However, according to my four source materials in the field of meditation practice, the beginners’various levels are the consequential reason for those Sayadawgyis’ customized individual training courses by Samatha or Vipasanā. In other words, they represent two kinds of meditation methods lead into or two separate paths to liberation: “marginalizing the samādhi function” and “maximizing the samādhi function”. This research establishes the “Investigation on Meditation-in-Action”, a new method, to examine the fact, Buddhist practice leading to Nibbana based on the foundation of samādhi. Through the dual perspectives, multiple situations, and multi-media materials of the teachers and the learners, the study analyze the four research materials of Mindfulness-of-Breathing (Anāpānasati) on referring with “Transferable Meditation Actions”. That is to say, how modern practitioners can employ the meditative methods in ancient scriptures to achieve inner realization. Firstly, this research inspects a case study of the members at the two major international meditation centers in Pa-Auk Monastery in Myanmar and temporary retreats in Taiwan, international meditation group who practice the path of maximizing the samādhi function by means of Mindfulness-of-Breathing. The investigation results of their eight-year were recorded actions of Mindfulness-of-Breathing. In the dissertation article, the interview of 100 dialogues were listed by chronological order. In addition, there are my self-narratives of immersive meditation experiences, the cases of observing the-others in stagnant periods, and one practitioner’s extraordinary experience of contemplating the Dhamma. Those their narratives were recounted in their preparatory and methodical periods and penetrated until the narrator’s reached concentration or experienced wisdom peak. They described the whole practice process including physical and mental experience and positive, and negative influencing factors. Next, the dissertation links their description of physical and mental evidence with the essential mind manipulation described in the passages of the scriptures and specifies the reasons for and the practice effectiveness were been classified into maximizing the samAdhi function of Mindfulness-of-Breathing. Pa-Auk Monastery has revived the samādhi function of Mindfulness-of-Breathing. The collective meditation actions obviously affirms that Purification of Consciousness is the starting point for discerning “Mind Door”and“Mentality and Materiality”. Purification of Consciousness is also the result of two determinate factors. One is teachers’ instructive sentences, as the external semantic indication of meditation; the other is learners’“Wise Attention”, as the inner semantic indication of meditation. Master Pa-Auk has established 334 steps on spiritual purity for leading to Nibbana in present life so that the practitioners can follow the instructions an
