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called the ‘Coarse Dhammakāya Arahant’ or the ‘Subtle Dhammakāya Arahant’ — the latter two being the bodies of enlightenment of the arahant. The Dhammakāyas are all transcendental [lokuttara] in nature — that is they are not made up of conventional aggregates [khanda] but are made up of pure aggregates [dhammakhanda] — the physical form, feeling, perception, memory and cognition still exist at the level of the Dhamma Body, but they are all purified to the point of perfection. By contrast the aggregates that make up the body at the level of the human, angel, Form-Brahmā and Formless-Brahmā are still on the mundane level [lokiya] and lead the owner of those bodies to be reborn further in the cycle of existence. Medicators who channel their mind through the Middle Way at the centre of the body from the Physical Human Body to the Subtle Formless-Brahmā Body are still meditating only at the level of Calm [samatha]. The eyes of these aforementioned bodies are still blind to the way in which the aggregates are subject to the Three Characteristics [ti-lakkhaṇa]. Only when the mind can attain the Dhamma Body can one’s meditation be said to have reached the stage of Insight [vipassanā] — because only then are you able to see for yourself that the aggregates are subject to the Three Characteristics of impermanence [aniccā], suffering [dukkhā] and not-self [anattā]. Dhammakāya is the Body of Enlightenment What is the true meaning of ‘insight’ [vipassanā] meditation? In fact insight is insightful vision or seeing things according to their true nature, seeing them thoroughly from every perspective. The ‘Dhamma’ eye is the eye of the ‘Body of Dhamma’ which has the ability to penetrate to the truth, especially to know the origins of defilements, how they come