Understanding the Dhammakāya and Its Mind : หน้า 140/263

reaching the Dhammakāya and becoming one and the same as the Dhammakāya. The body of the Dhammakāya incorporates layers of perception, sensory registration, central processing and cognition in just the same way as the human body. By contrast however, the mind of the Dhammakāya can be enlarged to a diameter equal to the distance across the lap (knee-to-knee) of the Dhammakāya. If it is the Dhammakāya Gotrabhu, this distance measures twenty fathoms (forty metres)—and the size increases with the refinement of each new Dhammakāya attained in sequence. A ‘mind’ which can be expanded in this way is known by the special name of ‘nāṇa’ or knowing. The mind's capacity to expand as ‘nāṇa’ in this way allows the meditator clearly to examine the eight inner bodies which have already been traversed and to see that all of these bodies are subject to the Three Signs [tilakkhaṇa]— impermanence [anicca], suffering [dukkha] and not-self [anattā]. All this is seen by the eye of the Dhammakāya. All this is known with the knowing [nāṇa] of the Dhammakāya. It is this practice which we can correctly refer to as ‘insight’ or ‘vipassanā’. Cultivating meditation and insight further, the meditator will attain increasingly subtle forms of the Dhammakāya until reaching the Subtle Arahat Dhammakāya body. The meditator will attain the condition of ‘coolness’ [sītibhiṭo]—coolness from the fire of the defilements. At this point the meditator has completed the work of the mind—there is no further work to be done. The Three Signs are Known by ‘nāṇa’ The Three Signs of Existence [tilakkhaṇa] that are exhibited by all material things are impermanence [anicca], suffering [dukkha] and not-self [anattā].