Understanding Dispassion and Detachment in Dhammakaya Meditation : หน้า 114/115

dispassion (ekantanibbida) and detachment (viraga) and accomplishes sequential shedding of the defilements until an end to defilements can be reached. The meditator sees and knows with the latter four of the five eyes the Buddha himself attained[15] - but in Dhammakaya meditation, the level of attainment is usually explained in terms of equivalent inner bodies which start with the physical human body and the subtle human body (astral body or subtle body) and which go successively deeper layers until reaching the body of enlightenment (Dhammakaya) of the arahaht - the number of bodies totaling eighteen. Five Eyes of the Buddha Equivalent Inner Bodies Equivalent jhana level physical eye (mamsacakkhu) physical human body first jhana angelic eye (dibbacakkhu) coarse angelic body second jhana eye of wisdom (paññācakkhu) coarse form brahma body third jhana eye of omniscience (santacakkhu) coarse formless brahma body fourth jhana Buddha-eye (buddhacakku) coarse Gotrabhu Dhammakaya body subtle Gotrabhu Dhammakaya body coarse stream enterer Dhammakaya body subtle stream-enterer Dhammakaya body coarse once-returner Dhammakaya body subtle once-returner Dhammakaya body coarse non-returner Dhammakaya body subtle non-returner Dhammakaya body coarse arahant Dhammakaya body subtle arahant Dhammakaya body paths and fruits of Nirvana The process of purification corresponds with that described in the Dhammacak-kapavattana Sutta where the arising of brightness is accompanied by the inner eye 114