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successive wisdom 
— you should familiarize yourself 
with their 
relative wisdoms." 
What is the true meaning of 
`insight' [vipassanA] 
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 Enlightenment' 
which has the ability to penetrate 
to the truth, 
especially to know the origins of 
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defilements, how 
they come to enslave the mind and 
how we can 
overcome them. This is a major 
difference from the 
eyes of bodies belonging to the 
mundane levels of 
mind to which the defilements are 
invisible. 
C.2 Characteristics of the Body of 
Enlightenment 
Luang Phaw Wat Paknam 
explained that the 
Dhamma Body is similar in shape 
and form to a 
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Four Noble Truths 379 
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sphere subjective experience 
equivalent inner eye 
sensual Physical Body: physical eye 
[maOsa-cakkhu] 
Angelic Body angelic eye 
mundane [dibba-cakkhu] 
states of form Form-Brahma Body 
the eye of wisdom 
mind [pailliA-cakkhu] 
[lokiya] formless Formless-Brahma 
Body all-seeing eye 
[samanta-cakkhu] 
transcendental Dhammakaya 
Gotrabhi Body 
states of mind of Enlightenment and 
higher Buddha eye 
[lokuttara] [buddha-cakkhu] 
Ariyasacca 
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SaccaliAA a 
KiccariAAa 
KatariAAa 
Dukkha 
knowledge of the 
existence of suffering 
knowledge of what 
should be done in 
relation to suffering 
knowledge that what 
needs to be done has 
been done in relation to 
suffering 
Samudaya Ariyasacca 
knowledge of the existence 
of the origin of suffering 
knowledge of what should 
be done in relation to the 
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origin of suffering 
knowledge that what 
needs to be done has been 
done in relation to the 
origin of suffering 
Nirodha Ariyasacca 
knowledge of the 
existence of the cessation 
of suffering 
knowledge of what 
should be done in relation 
to the cessation of 
suffering 
knowledge that what 
needs to be done has been 
done in relation to the 
cessation of suffering 
NirodhagAmEnE 
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Ariyasacca PaEipadA 
Ariyasacca 
knowledge of the existence 
of the path to the cessation 
of suffering 
knowledge of what should 
be done in relation to the 
path to the cessation of 
suffering 
knowledge that what 
needs to be done has been 
done in relation to the path 
to the cessation of suffering 
TABLE 33.3: Correlation between 
state of mind, inner experience & 
capacity for insight 
TABLE 33.4: Seeing the Four 
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Noble Truths - Three Cycles with 
Twelve Characteristics 
380 A Manual of Peace: 38 Steps 
towards Enlightened Living 
DhammakAya GotrabhE Body 
using the Dhamma eye of this body to 
examine 
the Noble Truths as they pertain to the 
physical body, the DhammakAya 
SotApana 
Body can be attained 
DhammakAya SotApana Body 
using the Dhamma eye of this body to 
examine 
the Noble Truths as they pertain to the 
angelic 
body, the DhammakAya 
SakidAgAmE Body can 
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be attained 
DhammakAya SakidAgAmE Body 
using the 
Dhamma eye of this body to examine 
the Noble 
Truths as they pertain to the Form 
Brahma 
body, the DhammakAya AnAgAmE 
Body can 
be attained 
DhammakAya AnaagAmt Body 
using the 
Dhamma eye of this body to examine 
the Noble 
Truths as they pertain to the Formless 
Brahma body, the DhammakAya 
Arahant 
Body can be attained 
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DhammakAya Arahant Body 
self-view [sakkayadiEEhi] 
doubt [vicikicchA] 
attachment to rites and rituals 
[sElabbataparamAsa] 
sensual grasping [kAmarAga] 
annoyance [pAtighA] 
attachment to the form realms 
[rEparAga] 
attachment for the formless realms 
[arEparAga] 
stubbornness [mAna] 
absent-mindedness [uddhacca] 
ignorance [avijjA] 
sensual grasping [kAmarAga] 
annoyance [pAtighA] 
attachment to the form realms 
[rEparAga] 
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attachment for the formless realms 
[arEparAga] 
stubbornness [mAna] 
absent-mindedness [uddhacca] 
ignorance [avijjA] 
sensual grasping [kAmarAga] 
annoyance [pAtighA] 
attachment to the form realms 
[rEparAga] 
attachment for the formless realms 
[arEparAga] 
stubbornness [mAna] 
absent-mindedness [uddhacca] 
ignorance [avijjA] 
desire [rAga](diminished) 
hatred [dosa] (diminished) 
delusion [moha](diminished) 
attachment to the form realms 
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attachment to rites and rituals 
[sElabbataparamAsa] 
desire [kAmarAga] 
annoyance [pAtighA].
self-view [sakkayadiEEhi] 
doubt [vicikicchA] 
attachment to rites and rituals 
[sElabbataparamAsa] 
sensual grasping [kAmarAga] 
annoyance [pAtighA] 
attachment to the form realms 
[rEparAga] 
attachment for the formless realms 
[arEparAga] 
stubbornness [mAna] 
absent-mindedness [uddhacca] 
ignorance [avijjA] 
attainment/practice remaining 
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fetters [saOyojanal destroyed 
fetters [samyojana] 
TABLE 33.5: Stages of Inner 
Attainment at which fetters are 
uprooted 
Blessing Thirty-Three: Seeing the 
Four Noble Truths 381 
Buddha image (of the sort with a 
lotus bud on the 
topknot) — but crystal clear and 
sparkling like a 
mirror — but exquisitely beautiful 
and proportioned. 
The Dhamma Body is the most 
refined of 
all the inner bodies described so 
far — and itself 
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exists at differing levels of 
refinement: 
• Dhammakaya GotrabhE Body 
• Dhammakaya SotApana Body 
• Dhammakaya SakidAgAmE 
Body 
• Dhammakaya AnAgAmE Body 
• Dhammakaya Arahant Body 
The DhammakAyas are all 
transcendental 
[lokuttara] in nature — that is they 
are not made up 
of conventional aggregates 
[khanda] but are made 
up of transcendental aggregates 
[dhammakhanda] —
the physical form, feeling, 
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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-brahmA and 
formless-brahmA are still on the 
mundane level 
[lokiya] and lead the owner of 
those bodies to be 
reborn further in the cycle of 
existence. 
Meditators who attain the Dhamma 
Body to the 
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degree that their mind becomes 
irreversibly unified 
with the Dhamma Body, thereby 
make themselves 
invulnerable to the action of 
defilements. The 
progression through the Dhamma 
bodies, eradicating 
the final ten subtle defilements, or 
fetters 
[saOyojana] from the mind is 
shown in Table 33.5. 
(opposite): 
C.3 Three Cycles withTwelve 
Characteristics 
Seeing the Noble Truths in each 
one of the inner 
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bodies has three stages or `cycles 
of examination'. 
As there are four Noble Truths, 
multiplied together, 
seeing the Noble Truths the 
Buddha or the arahants 
are able to eradicate all the 
defilements from their 
minds is achieved by the same 
sequential method 
described below. These twelve 
stages of the Cycle 
of Examination are the product of 
multiplying the 
Four Noble Truths by the Three 
Cycles of Examination. 
The cyclical pathway of attainment 
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is rather 
like the way a nut gradually makes 
progress along 
the screw-thread of a bolt by 
rotating (not like an 
electric fan which rotates without 
getting anywhere). 
For progress with enlightenment, 
progressing 
in the cycle eradicates the 
defilements as it rotates. 
It was because the Buddha and all 
the arahants 
had completed all three cycles with 
their twelve 
components in their entirety, that 
they can attain 
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full enlightenment — with no 
further rebirth. 
Once you have seen the Noble 
Truths clearly, over 
and over again, it will gradually 
reduce the number 
of defilements in the mind. When 
the defilements 
become permanently less, you will 
be able to attain 
Buddhist sainthood at the level of 
stream-entry 
[sotApana], once-returner 
[sakidAgAmi], non-returner 
[anAgAmE] or arahant. 
In conclusion, you need to practice 
sequentially 
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if you are going to be successful in 
your practice 
and the sequence of progress ofthe 
mind towards 
`seeing' the Noble Truths. 
Importantly, it should be noticed 
that the noble 
truths can not be seen by those 
who have not yet 
attained the DhammakAya. 
However, those who 
have attained the DhammakAya 
from the level of 
DhammakAya GotrabhE upwards 
are able to do 
the final work of eradicating the 
Ten Fetters from 
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