Kammaṭṭhāna

Kammatthana ( Pali, Skt: karmasthana; literally " training area "; similar term: Bhavana - mental development, in Thai: กรรมฐาน, pronounced: [ came ˑ má ˑ t ʰ ǎ ː n] ) denotes figuratively a place within the mind, where one can retreat to to work on his intellectual development. Kammatthana is a meditation practice that is focused on every aspect of " delusion ", " the spirit turbid passions " ( defilements ), by desire ( tanha ), from ignorance or " not seeing " ( avijja - see three mental poisons ) from remove the heart to interrupt the connection of the mind to the cycle of repeated birth and subsequent death.

Kammatthana also often referred to a particular direction in the Thai forest tradition, as practiced by the famous meditation masters Ajahn Sao and Ajahn Mun Kantasilo Bhuridatta.

There we have here more specifically to the 40 objects of meditation ( bhavana ), as they are written in the third chapter of the Visuddhimagga. From a meditation teacher called the practitioner gradually every 40 classical objects for depression, depending on the temperament of the student and his spiritual progress:

• The first ten are the ten Kammatthana Kasina exercises, there are things that you can see directly: Earth (1 ) water (2 ), fire ( 3) wind (4 ), blue ( 5) Yellow ( 6) Red ( 7) White ( 8) Light (9 ), limited space (10 ).

• Puffy corpses ( 1), blauverfärbte ( 2), purulent ( 3), split ( 4), chewed ( 5), around scattered (6) or chopped and around scattered ( 7), bleeding ( 8), eaten by worms bodies (9 ) and the skeleton (10).

• The first three are the Three Jewels ( 1) Buddha ( 2) Dhamma, and ( 3) the Sangha;
• The next three are the virtues ( 4) morality ( sīla ), (5 ) generosity ( dana ) and ( 6) the heavenly beings ( deva );
• Followed by ( 7) death ( 8) of the body ( kaya ), (9 ) the breath ( prana) or the on-and off - Breathe ( Anapana ) and ( 10) of the peace.

The Honorable Ajahn Mun has emphasized in his writings again and again that, although it is actually a technical term in Kammatthana, and it has a special meaning for the Dhutanga - bhikkhus, yet the true basis of Kammatthana in everyone, ordained monks or lay, can be found. They taught the new monk since the time of the Buddha during the ordination ceremony. There are the five basic Kammatthana about the constituents of the body: head hair ( kesa ), body hair ( loma ), nails ( Nakha ), teeth ( Danta ) and skin ( taco ) on which a further meditation - led by a responsible teacher - can build.

Swell

• Nyanatiloka: Buddhist dictionary. Publisher Beyerlein & Steinschulte 1999, ISBN 3-931095-09-6
• Maha Boowa Acariya: Venerable Mun Acariya Bhuridatta Thera, a Spiritual Biography. Wat Pa Baan Taad, 3rd edition 2005, Baan Taad, Amphoe Muang, Udorn Thani, 41000 Thailand, ISBN 974-92007-4-8 ( available for free at the above address, or 4MB PDF download here )
• Maha Boowa Acariya: patipadā: Venerable Acariya Mun 's Path of Practice. Wat Pa Baan Taad 2005 Baan Taad, Amphoe Muang, Udorn Thani, 41000 Thailand, ISBN 974-93757-9-3 ( available for free at the above address, or 8MB pdf download here. The first six chapters have been translated into German, pdf download here.)