Manual of Self-Awareness

by Luangpor Teean Jittasubho


Appendix

Objects of Insight


  

 

Basic stage: Roop-Naham (body-mind) Objects:

 

-Roop, Nahm; Roop acting, Nahm acting; Roop disease, Nahm disease

-Dukkham-Aniccam-Anattā (unbearable-unstable-uncontrollable)

-Sammati (supposition)

Sāsana (religion), Buddhasāsana (Buddhism)

-Pāpa (sin), Puńńa (merit)

 

 

Seeing Thought-Mind Stage: Paramattha (mind-touchable) Objects:

-Vatthu (matter), Paramattha (actual existance), Akarā (changingness)

-Dosa-Moha-Lobha (anger-delusion-greed)

-Vedanā-Sańńā-Sankhāra-Vińńāna (feeling-perception-mental formation-knowledge)

-Kilesa-Tanhā-Upādāna-Kamma (defilement/stickness-craving/heaviness-attachment-action)

 

-Silakhandha-Samādhikhamdha-Pańńākhanddha

-Kāmāsava-Bhavāsava-Avijjāsava

 

-Bad bodily action, how it causes suffering, if there is hell, Which level we would fall. How many days, months, years would it be?

 

-Bad verbal action

-Bad mental action

-Bad bodily, verbal and mental action altogether

-Good bodily action, how is is blissful, if there is heaven or Nirvāna, which level we would it be?  How many days, months, years would it be?

-Good verbal action

- Good mental action

- Good bodily, verbal and mental action altogether

 

-Birth-Extinction State (the End of Suffering)

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***The spiritual objects which one will realize when self-awareness is full and complete.

 


Kālāma Sutta