A Study of Meditation Treatment in Chachoengsao Province A Study of Meditation Treatment in Chachoengsao Province

Abstract

The research results were revealed that:

1. Principle and methods to practice the meditation in the temples or places in Cha. In the overview, there were the procedure of meditation treatment, starting at giving homage to the Triple Gem, taking the precepts, chanting mantras and meditation practice by concentrating the breathe-in and breathe-out according to the Anapansati and Buddhobhavana. According to Fourfold Satipatthana. There were the factors consisting of inflating and collapsing with breathe-in and out. Persons who practice, spent the holidays and the easy times with one time per week, relating with the interesting of them. Therefore, they gave the idea and it was calculated with means at the high level (=3.72).


2. Initially, with the principle of meditation practice the persons started at the pure precepts, concentrated the breathe-in and out all time according the principle of fourfold Satipatthana and they should considered the six-fold vipassanabhumi, fivefold khandha, twel-fold sense, six-fold dhatu, eighteen dhatu, fourfold ariyasacca, twenty-two intriya, and twelfold paticcasamuppada. These practice procedures concerned to the evidence written in the scriptures of Buddhism.


3. The efficiency and achievement of the formation to manage the meditation treatment in Chachoengsao Province were taught by the abbots or owners of temple or places of meditation in the personnel and the ready preparation. However, the preparation of the ready personnel to take the duty of teaching the meditation inherited from the abbots or owners of meditation places. This point was the little number. In the overview, the ready preparation was facility to people who came to practice the meditation and written the practice rules.