A Study of Abandonment of Avijjasamyojana through Vipassana Meditation

Abstract

This article aimed at; 1) study the Avijjasamyojana or ignorance fetters in Buddhism, and 2) study of insight practice for Avijjasamyojana abandonment. lt was documentary research, the received data was collected, compiled, and presented in detail related. The results revealed that

1) The results revealed that Avijjasamyojana in Buddhism refers to a bondage of all beings within the circle of birth and death. This is the origin of ignorance, which is the delusive knowledge, the origin of delusive knowledge causes the rise of ignorance called Asava or mental intoxication, the cessation of Avijjasamyojana arises due to its cessation of Asava. There are 8 types of the practice for ignorance abandoning including: 1) ignorance of suffering, 2) ignorance of suffering’s origin, 3) ignorance of cessation suffering, 4) ignorance of the way leading to suffering end, 5) ignorance of past, 6) not knowing the future, 7) not knowing both the past and the future, 8) not knowing Paticcasamuppada.

2) The practice of Vipassana meditation to abandon the ignorance by using mindfulness for realizing the truth and let go of all phenomenon currently appearing is included; 1) knowing suffering, 2) knowing the origin of suffering, 3) knowing the cessation of suffering, 4) knowing the way to reach the suffering, 5) the past, 6) the future, 7) the past and the future, 8) knowing Paticcasamuppada. Vijja is the knowledge which plays as head of the perfection of wholesomeness, moral shame, and moral dread, as the Buddha has stated that any woeful world and the other existence are caused by Avijjasamyojana through ignorance and greed, because ignorance is a cause of all evil desires for mortals and when all ignorance have been abandoned, all woeful realms must be completely uprooted.