Dhammānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna and Mentality Development

Abstract

This article has the following objectives: a study of the teaching of Dhammānupassanāsatipatthāna in Theravada Buddhist scriptures, and an analysis of the development of the mind according to Dhammānupassanāsatipatthāna principle. The principles of Dhammānupassanāsatipatthāna in Theravada Buddhism mean education, practice, and training in higher wisdom for enlightenment by seeing things as they really are which leads to passion and suffering end, in which the Buddha assures the only one way for purification, abandoning sorrows, lamentation, suffering, griefs and for complete realization and Nibbana attainment. The development of the mind based on Dhammānupassanāsatipatthāna is to observe all phenomena happening due to their causes and whether all these things belong to anyone, then knowing that everything is just happening and disappearing. He with mindfulness realizes the impermanence of whatever happens, remains, and falls apart until leading to the Four Noble Truth realization in the final. It concludes that the practitioners should be mindful of five hindrances (Nivaraṇa), the five aggregate (Khandha), twelve spheres (Āyatana), seven enlightenment factors, and the Four Noble Truths, what it is, how it happens, and whether it exists within oneself, how they arise, persist and fade away, as they really were.