Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Levels : หน้า 110/263

reach the station, from there we take the train to the airport and eventually take the aeroplane that will take us to our destination. All the various inner spheres and bodies all the way from the Physical Human Body inwards to the Dhamma Body are all nested within one another at the seventh base of the mind. The Dhamma Body is made of Transcendental Aggregates Luang Phaw Wat Paknam explained that the Dhamma Body is similar in shape and form to a Buddha image (of the sort with a lotus bud on the topnot) — but crystal clear and sparkling like a mirror — exquisitely beautiful and proportioned. The Dhamma Body is the most refined of all the inner bodies described so far — and itself exists at differing levels of refinement — the Coarse Dhammakāya Gotrabhu Body, the Subtle Dhammakāya Gotrabhu Body, the Coarse Dhammakāya Sotāpana, the Subtle Dhammakāya Sotāpana Body, the Coarse Dhammakāya Sakidāgāmi Body, the Subtle Dhammakāya Sakidāgāmi Body, the Coarse Dhammakāya Anāgāmi Body, the Subtle Anāgāmi Body, the Coarse Dhammakāya Arahat Body and the Subtle Dhammakāya Arahat Body. From the teachings of Phra rajbavanavisudh (Chaiboon Dhammayo) present abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya the only reason that there is differentiation between the different levels of the Dhamma Bodies is because the amount of subtle defilements that remain for each level of Dhamma Body are different. If a large number of defilements still remain then the Dhamma Body will be the ’Dhammakāya Gotrabhu’. If defilements are relatively less then it will be the ’Dhammakāya Sotāpana’. If the defilements are still less then it will be the ’Dhammakāya Sakidāgāmi’. If even less, it will be the ’Dhammakāya Anāgāmi’ — and if no defilements remain at all, it will be