毗婆舍=Vipassana; 那四念住=Four Foundation of Mindfulness; 正念覺照=Mindfulness Awareness; 身心科學=Physical and Psychological Science; 身心素質=Mind-body Quality; 轉化=Transformation
The research method of this dissertation is based on Autoethnography (Self narrative inquiry), expounding and recording the past ten years(2012-2022) through the practice of Vipassana (Insight) meditation practice on the Four Foundation of Mindfulness, with mindful awareness on the body, feeling, mind and mind-objects. Through the process of mindful awareness practice, mindfully observe and be aware the gradual transformation of the consciousness, physiological state, mental emotion, and behavior and attitudes. In May 2012, I went to Wat Phradhatu Sri Chom Tong Voravihara, a temple centered on meditation practice located in Chiang Mai Thailand. I took up a 20-day of fundamental Vipassana meditation practice. After finished the fundamental meditation course, I returned to my homeland, Taiwan, and continue to practice the meditation technique for over 7 years. In February 2020, I went to the temple again to complete a 10-day advance meditation practice. Ever since I continue to practice meditation as home-based, a non-temple environment. This research expounds and explores the abovementioned meditation practice from May 2012 till this dissertation is submitted. I started to write the thesis in November 2019. The original motivation for writing it came from wanting to record and elaborate carefully and attentively such simple, good and effective meditation practice technique. In this way, having the opportunity to introduce this meditation technique to my relatives and friends, or to people who serendipitously of fate and destiny show interests in learning and practicing the meditation for their meditation practice guidelines. Besides, it can also let more people understand that meditation practice is not only for ascetic practitioners. Instead, meditation practice is a very simple method of mindful awareness. Through habitual application of this mindful awareness practice in daily life, one’s life can be transformed, to become more happiness. The process of mindful practice is a path of free one’s suffering, instead of a process of painfulness. Indeed, it is a short cut of reaching a state of happiness, liberation of mind. Through the process of thesis writing, as well as contemplation of the transformation of different aspects of my life, it aroused the connection from my past professional background. That is, the connection of the relevant knowledge related to physical and psychological science of my previous professional learning. Under the interaction and exchange of knowledge and experience, I observed and felt the obvious profound changing process of my physical and mental quality. It produced a corresponding combination for sufficient understanding and interpretation for me. In turn, it deepened my belief and faith in the practice of the Four Foundation of Mindfulness. Therefore, in addition to the description of the process of meditation process and my transformation both bodily and mentally, relevant physical and psychological knowledge that connects one’s mind and bodily quality is discussed. In the second chapter of the thesis, based on the importance of understanding and learning the knowledge of the nature of our own body and mind, I especially disc
