The Center of the Body

When the mind stops still at the center of your body, the psycho-physical elements (Water, Earth, Fire, Wind, Space, and Consciousness) are all together at one point [element]. You can see with your mind the actual Light Sphere or Pathama Magga which is your own real nucleus. It is very bright and luminous.

When you see this, forget about all visualizations. Forget about reciting the mantra. Just rest your mind at the center. Then, the center will expand itself. More and more refined spheres will appear. Just stop still at the center of the center of each, until you reach the most refined one. Then, stop still.

When your mind stops still at the center of the body you can see your own Dhamma. Why do I say Dhamma is here and not in the scriptures or elsewhere? Because all practices of body, speech and mind regarding Right Action, Right Speech, and Right Thought lead to the mind becoming purer and purer at the center of the body. This is where the mind performs its functions. If you meditate at the center of your body, your mind will become purer and purer.

Purification of Mind

Purification of the mind is the purpose of Four Foundation of Mindfulness (Satipatthana). When you see your mind is impure, you must purify it right away. You do this by holding it still at the center of the center until you reach pure dhamma, the purest mind and body you can attain. This is the Dhammakaya Meditation practice.

When your mind is perfectly concentrated at its most refined and purest state, the center expands and you can see your own Refined Human Body at the center of the sphere within your Crude Human Body. This is the result of proper meditation. It means your human-level dhamma is pure and happy.

Inner Bodies

Then, larger and larger spheres will appear within the refined human body. As you continue, you can reach celestial dhamma and see your own Celestial Body and mind which is about double the size of the human body. As your body and mind and the elements of the Five Aggregates become purer and purer you can reach the Brahman Body which is about double the size of the Celestial Body. Next, you will see the Formless Brahman Body which is about double the size of the Brahman Body. Don’t worry about the name; whatever you see, that’s it.

Don’t be surprised when you see the refined body becoming larger and larger, very refined, very beautiful with adornments and very radiant. This is due to the merit which you have performed. Proceed to become the more and more refined bodies and minds, by placing your mind at the center of the center of each.

Dhammakaya

When your mind reaches the purest state, you will see Dhammakaya which looks like a transparent Buddha statue, radiant with a lotus bud upon the head. The standard height is about nine meters in width and height. That is the preliminary size. From then on, subsequent Dhammakaya will be larger and larger, and more and more refined. They become very radiant, and up to forty meters in height and width. Do not be surprised.

Mundane Bodies

You might ask “Why practice according to this approach in which the meditator sees the body larger and larger?” If you can see an angel or celestial beings, the real angel or Brahman is even larger. Don’t be surprised. You can be sure of this. There exist internal bodies. There are at least eighteen bodies, each more and more refined, purer and purer, until the most refined body, the Dhammakaya. You will perceive Dhammakaya when your mind is at the purest. By stopping still at the center of the center, you will pass through the spheres of all mundane bodies (the Human, Celestial, Brahman and Formless Brahman Bodies), until you reach the supra-mundane body, Dhammakaya. Then, you have attained Nirvana.

Why can you reach Nirvana during meditation? So long as you purify your mind by stopping still at the center of the center, your mind will become purer and purer until it temporarily reaches the purest. This is temporarily way beyond, or above, or far away from the passions, due to meditation. This is called Vikkhambhanavimutti or temporary emancipation via suppression. In that state of mind you can see Nirvana. You can see Lord Buddha who exists in Nirvana. Don’t doubt it. It is in the scriptures. Lord Buddha said that Nirvana exists as a Supra-mundane abode (Ayatana) where Lord Buddha and his disciples exist.

Atthi bhikkhave, tadayatanam ...
Monks, there exists the supra-mundane abode of Nirvana...

(Pataligamiya vagga Nibbana Sutta III)

Conclusion

Concentration meditation aims at concentration to remove the Five Hindrances. Lord Buddha taught forty meditation devices. Dhammakaya Meditation utilizes three of these simultaneously, focused at the center of the body. They are visualization of the Light Object (Aloka-kasina), repetition of Samma Arahang, and Mindfulness of Breathing or Anapanasati. Luang Phor Wat Paknam taught how to use these techniques to bring the mind inward to rest at the center of the body. Here you can see your own true nucleus or dhamma where the results of Right Action, Right Speech and Right Thought can be observed. Continuing to concentrate and purify your mind at the center of the center, you can pass through eighteen internal body-minds until you reach non-compound Dhammakaya and temporarily attain Nirvana. In this state you can see Nibbana and Lord Buddha who resides in Nirvana.