An Integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna Teaching for Ordination Applicants of the Preceptor

Abstract

This article aimed to 1) study a Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna or five basic meditation including skin etc. in Theravadin Buddhism, 2) study the roles of the preceptor who teaches Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna to the new ordained Bhikkhus and 3) illustrating an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna teaching for ordination applicants of the preceptor. It was qualitative research stating on document survey and personnel depth-interview. It was a qualitative research an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna teaching for ordination applicants of the preceptor was that the preceptor starts teaching after all applicants have been asking for their ordination advising that new Bhikkhu must comprehend this Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna as per a trick of meditation and wisdom cultivation for new ordained saying each word that Kesā, Lomā, Nakhā, Dantā, Taco in forward order, 2) Taco, Dantā, Nakhā, Lomā, Kesā in reverse order. It is true that such concentration helps a new ordained to abandon sensual pleasure indulgence. For an integration of Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna teaching for new ordained, it was that the new ordained must observe hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth and skins as dirty, a source of diseases. Having completed basic Tacapañcakakammaṭṭhāna practice, a new ordained will head to Noble Path, Fruits and Nibbana in the end. The preceptor must also continue training by emphasizing that this type of meditation appears a ground, a root of all meditation, able to subdue the sextual desire and reducing the degree of lust, aggression, and delusion of a new ordained.