Nov – Dec 2025

In this research paper, the authors both of whom are ordained monks and living the life of monkhood in Maha Bodhi Bengaluru, and Myanmar respectively through thorough and meticulous Dhamma research arising out of practical experience on how, the three-fold training of human beings in Morality, concentration and insight mediation can be gradually purified leading to the attainment of Enlightenment. The following research questions are answered by validating the responses received from the monks and lay devotees that is whether three-fold training of morality, concentration and wisdom can conquer and eradicate the defilements in the minds of the individual practitioners? How the said three-fold training efface the mental defilements namely greed, hatred, delusion, conceit, false view, uncertainty, agitation and worry of the practitioners? Whether the practice of three-fold training helped the personal purification, establishment of good interpersonal relations and enhancement of professional excellence of the practitioner? How far the mental sufferings have reduced on account of the practice of the three-fold training? To what extent the protection, calmness and insight into the three universal characteristics of nature of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self have been achieved by the practitioners and the study, the research paper answers the above relevant questions.