ศึกษาวิเคราะห์ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างโพชฌงค์ ๗ กับอานาปานสติ

Thesis contains 3 objectives; 1) to study contents and significant teaching of Bojjhanga or enlightenment factors, 2) to study of essential contents of Ānāpānasati or breathing mindfulness, and 3) to analyze the relationship of Bojjhanga and Ānāpānasati. It was qualitative research, using data taken from Theravada Buddhist scriptures and other related texts. All data was summed up, analyzed, and compiled in descriptive style.

                 The results of study showed that Bojjhanga refers to the virtues or factors of Ariyasacca realization, i.e., Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha and Magga, the practical teaching for knowledge and complete liberation or the end of suffering, it provides the knowledge to support wisdom, the path leading to Nibbana. It contains 7 components; 1) Satisambojjhanga, 2) Dhammavicayasambojjhanga, 3) Viriyasambojjhanga, 4) Pītisambojjhanga, 5) Passaddhisambojjhanga, 6) Samādhisambojjhanga, and 7) Upekkhāsambojjhanga.

                 Ānāpānasati means the mindfulness of breathing in-out observing containing 16 steps, it is meditative practice included in four foundations of mindfulness, Kāyānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna, delivered to new Bhikkhus and other Venerable by the Buddha for the right practice of breath observing leading to realization and complete liberation. It is both of Samatha and Vipassana rooted by wisdom as its components, which is true realization, growing up the mind to reach state of Arahanta or the final dissolution.

The relationship between Bojjhanga and Ānāpānasati showed that Bojjhanga was included within Bodhipakkhiyadhamma, while Anapanasati is in Satipatthana, i.e. Kāyānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna which is also included in Bodhipakkhiyadhamma. Both is related to each other as the factors of enlightenment, they are the kind of breath in-out mindfulness as follows; 1) in Satisambojjhanga,  the meditator uses mindfulness on mental formations or observed objects, 2) in Dhammavicaya, he reminds the breathing in-out, observing the realities, 3) in Viriyasambojjhanga, he observes the in-out breaths with great efforts for realization, 4) in Pītisambojjhanga state, he continues mindfulness of in-out breaths, detaching all happening raptures, 5) in Passaddhisambojjhanga, he still observes breathing in-out with relaxed and free mind, 6) in Samadhisambojjhanga, he continues mindfully observing the breathing in-out with one-pointed mind, 7) in Upekkhāsambojjhanga, he with in-out breaths mindfulness, reaches the indifferent, neutral, detached mind by relying on serenity, dispassionateness, extinction, bending to release all defilements. Having complete mindfulness on in-out breaths, meditator will surely attain the final realization and liberation.