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Ternyata Panca Niyama (atau lebih tepatnya Dhamma Niyama yang berunsur lima) tidak ditemukan dalam kanon Tipitaka mana pun, tetapi berasal dari kitab komentar (Abhidhammavatara, Digha Nikaya Atthakatha, dst)
fivefold niyama in the Pali commentaries
It is well known that the list of ‘pañcavidha niyama’, fivefold niyama or the five niyamas, is only found in the commentaries, not in the Pali canon. In fact, it only occurs twice in the whole commentarial literature. The first occurrence is in the commentary to the Mahaapadaana Sutta in the Diigha Nikaaya. Here the Buddha is describing the life of the former Buddha Vipassi, and tells of sixteen special occurrences at the time of Vipassi’s birth, things which always happen at the birth of a Buddha-to-be. Some are pious, such as his mother being completely virtuous; some are sad, such as her dying after seven days; and many are supernatural, such as the earthquake that rocks the entire universe at the descent of the bodhisatta into his mother’s womb. After describing each special occurrence, the Buddha says ‘and all this is natural [dhammataa]’. (4)
The word ‘dhammataa’ is an abstract noun derived from ‘dhamma’, and it could also be rendered ‘according to dhamma’. The commentary takes it upon itself to explain what is meant by ‘dhammataa’ here. It first glosses ‘dhammataa’ as ‘sabhaava’ (nature) and as ‘niyama’ (order or necessity). Then it goes on to explain the fivefold niyama. (5) I will quote Walpola Rahula’s summary of the passage (I will do this because Rahula is writing about dhammataa, not the fivefold niyama, so he is not trying to make any particular point about niyama):
‘The commentary goes on to enumerate five kinds of niyaama “order of things”: (i) kammaniyaama “the order of kamma”, i.e. good actions produce good results and bad actions produce bad results; (ii) utu-niyaama “the order of the seasons”, i.e. in certain regions of the earth at certain periods the flowering and fruiting of trees, the blowing or ceasing of wind, the degree of the heat of the sun, the amount of rain-fall, some flowers like the lotuses opening during the day and closing at night and so on; (iii) biija-niyaama “the order of seeds or germs”, i.e. a seed producing its own kind as barley seed produces barley; (iv) citta-niyaama “the order of mind”, i.e. the order of the process of mind-activities as the preceding thought-moment causing and conditioning the succeeding one in a cause and effect
relation; (v) dhamma-niyaama “the order of dhamma”, i.e. such events like the quaking of the ten thousand world-systems at the Bodhisatta’s conception in his mother’s womb and at his birth. At the end of the discussion the Commentary decides that in this case the dhammataa refers to dhammaniyaama.’ (6)
The other occurrence of pañcavidha niyama is in the Atthasaalinii, the commentary on the Dhammasangani, the first book of the Theravaada Abhidhamma Pitaka. (7) The exposition of fivefold niyama here is very similar, the only difference being that the emphasis is on how the citta-niyaama is an automatic, natural process of perception, as described by the very complex Abhidhamma theory of unconscious mind-moments. This process is thus compared to the seasonal patterns of plants and weather, how the seeds of plants sprout as plants of the same sort, how good actions lead to good results and bad actions to bad, and how there are always earthquakes at the birth of the bodhisatta. The Atthasaalinii seems to take for granted the list of fivefold niyama but uses it to illustrate different kinds of natural, non-volitional processes that happen of their own accord.
Sumber: http://www.dhivan.net-a.googlepages.com/shortniyamasessay.pdf
Jadi apakah ajaran tentang Niyama tidak valid? Padahal kita selalu menggunakan Niyama untuk menjelaskan semua fenomena fisik dan mental yang terjadi di alam semesta tanpa campur tangan sosok pengatur/pencipta....