A Development of Faculty Restraint in Pārisuddhisīla

Abstract

This academic article aims to visualize the technique of faculty development in PārisuddhiSīla or morality purification through six organs observing, namely the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind for calms and insight knowledge progress. Eye restraint starts from noting the perceived visual objects just as a temporary appearance, transitory, the sound perceived by ears, pleasant and unpleasant, the smells that come into contact with the olfactory nose, is the concentration of the taste of food perceived by tongue, physical contact with different sensations, and mental conditions while the mental formation  or emotion occurs in order to be aware of perceived objects and for being free from eye clinging while seeing visible objects, ears while listening, nose while smelling, tongue while tasting, the body while being touched,  thought clinging while thinking, without like and dislike which cause the rise of defilements. Having complete this course, one becomes the faculty restrainer through perfect faculty training, namely eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, he also certainly prevents the rise of all problems and suffering at first.