A Study of the People’s Attitude towards the Teaching of Vipassana Meditation Practice in the Way of Phra Dhammasinghapuracariya (Jaran Dhidhadhammo)

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: (1) To study the people’s attitude towards the teaching of Vipassana meditation in the way of Phra Dhammasinghapuracariya (Jaran Dhidhadhammo) of the Tan-en Temple, Provincial office of Dhamma practice No. 15, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province. (2) To study factors relating to the attitudes and practices of Vipassana meditation according to the principles of Phra Dhammasinghapuracariya (Jaran Dhidhadhammo) of the Tan-en Temple, Provincial office of Dhamma practice No. 15, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province. The sample group consists of 120 randomly-selected meditation practitioners at the Tan-en Temple. The data are acquired through questionnaires and analyzed through statistical software packages for frequency, percentage (%),mean (), standard deviation (S.D.), t-test, and one-way analysis of variance. The level of significance for statistical testing was 0.05.

The research finds that the attitudes of practitioners, who meditated at the Tan-en Temple, towards the meditation practice according to the teachings of Phra Dhammasinghapuracariya (Jaran Dhidhadhammo), are at the level of 3.91, with a standard deviation at 0.532. Hypothesis testing finds that gender and age differences influence the selected sample’s attitude towards Vipassana meditation practice, whereas variables in terms of meditation practice experience and duration do not affect the sample group’s attitudes towards the meditation practice according to the teachings of Phra Dhammasinghapuracariya (Jaran Dhidhadhammo) of the Tan-en Temple.