Abstracts
This research paper has 2 objectives; 1) to study the Dhamma principles in Khemaka-sutta and 2) to study Vipassana meditation practice in Khemaka-sutta by studying data from Theravada Buddhist scriptures and other related documents, then gathered, summarized, arranged and written in descriptive style and finally verified by Buddhist scholars. From the study, it found that;
Khemaka-sutta appeared in Kantthavaravagga, Suttanta-Pitaka,. It was a story of Ven. Khemaka who got a serious illness and stayed at Patarikaram. At a later time, 60 Bhikkhus wanted to listen his Dhamma explanation so they sent Ven. Thasaka to ask him several times about his illness conditions and Dhamma topic of five aggregates. With this reason he decided to deliver Dhamma explanation to them by himself. While he was in giving Dhamma explanation, Ven. Khemaka and
60 Bhikkhus’ mind was free from all worldly influxes by non-attachment. There are essentially 3 Dhamma explanations in this Khemaka-sutta; 1) Five aggregates consisting of the heap of materiality, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness. 2) Five aggregates attachments or five aggregates grasped,
3) Samyojana refers to the mental states binding all beings with suffering in endless cycle of birth and death.
To practice Vipassana meditation in Khemaka-sutta revealed that Ven. Khemaka explained Dhamma to encourage Bhikkhus to develop insight meditation in the term of Dhammānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna (Contemplation of mind objects) based on four Satipatthanas. The great effort (Atāpi), awareness (Sampajāno) and mindfulness (Satimā) are important tools for practitioner to realize the true nature by observing the rise and fall of name and forms or Five Upadanakhandhas as being impermanent, suffering and not-self. When Vipassanāñāna was completed, the practitioner can get rid of all fetters (Sanyojana) and worldly influxes (Anusaya) due to their power of Magga and enter to noble path and fruits becoming the Noble One in final.
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