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The research on “An Analytical Study of the Meditation Center in Singburi Province” had 3 objectives: 1) to study teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna in Theravada Buddhism, 2) to study the concept and approach of teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna at the Meditation Center in Singburi Province, and 3) to analyze teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna at the Meditation Center in Singburi Province. This research applied the Qualitative Research.

The research results were as follows:

1. Teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna in Theravada Buddhism was teaching to enlightenment in Ripa-Nama with Tilakkhana (the Three Characteristics):  Aniccata (impermanence), Dukkhata (state of suffering), and Anattata (soullessness) that happened in  Dvara 6 (sense-doors) that stated of the mind, the mental method, the approach of mental development, the wisdom cultivation, the wisdom development, and the wisdom training to understand the things really, see through a trick, make the self-purification from the defilements, be free from suffering, and solve the problems with the wisdom.

2. The concept and approach of teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna at the Meditation Center in Singburi Province was the concept of the Vipassanàkammaññhàna practice in rising and falling focusing on Kayanupassanasatipatthana, Anapanapabba, Iriyapathapabba, and Sampajannapabba that was the breathing and talking in rising and falling, walking meditation in 6 steps and set the minor gesture in the meditation. The practitioners in rising and falling should have the attention in Sabhavalakkhana and Samannalakkhana to being the emotion of Vipassanàkammaññhàna, and should set the mindfulness in body, feeling, mind, and Dhamma that was the Vipassanàkammaññhàna practice actually.

3. The analysis of teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna at the Meditation Center in Singburi Province was teaching Vipassanàkammaññhàna in short-term and long-term curriculum that applied the curriculum in Satipatthana 4 (foundations of mindfulness), and set the mindfulness in the reality of the major and minor gestures. Teaching the content of Vipassanàkammaññhàna in Pariyativipassanàkammaññhàna with Satipatthana 4 taught the practitioners having the Bala 5 (power), adapt the sense-forces in balance consisting of Atapi, Satima, and Sampajjano. Teaching the content of Vipassanàkammaññhàna in Patipativipassanàkammaññhàna set the standing in 3 times and walking meditation in 6 steps. The meditation should hunker in one step, two steps, or three steps, sit up straight, close the eyes, set the mindfulness to the stomach in rising and falling, breathing in and breathing out, and focus on the mindfulness in the present until knowing the change of Ripa-Nama with Tilakkhana.