A BUDDHIST WISDOM FOR ENHANCING SELF - ESTEEM OF MEDITATION PRACTITIONERS

Abstract

The study aimed 1) to study the content and essence of the Buddhist wisdom theories; 2) to study the content and the essence of enhancing self-esteem; and 3) to study a Buddhist wisdom for enhancing self-esteem of meditation practitioners. The study was a quasi-experimental research collecting data from Buddhist scriptures and documents relevant to construct the Program of a Buddhist wisdom for enhancing self-esteem used for the participation of 70 study samples divided into two groups of the control group and experimental group with 35 samples each. The statistics including Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Paired t-test and Independent t- test was used for analyzing data.

Results of the study were as follows:

1. Results of the program between the experimental group and the control group before and after participation in the program were found that there was a significant difference with the overall mean was 3.22, the standard deviation was equal to 0.36 that was moderate, while comparing the reults of the program found that the overall mean was 3.51 and the standard deviation was 0.42 that was in a high level. From the previous comparison of the two groups, the mean difference was 0.29 and the standard deviation was 0.06.
2. Results of the comparison of the difference and Sig value of participation in the activities in the pre-experimental training program showed that self-esteem in the experimental and control groups as a whole, the experimental groups n 35 had a mean of 3.47, a standard deviation of 0.40, t- 0.729, and Sig of 0.49; and the control groups n 35 had a mean of 3.50 and a standard deviation of 0.36.
3. Results of the comparison of the difference and Sig value of participation in the activities in the post-experimental training program showed that self-esteem of n 35 had a mean of 3.79, a standard deviation of 0.53, t- 0.521, and Sig of 0.04* and with a significance level of 0.05.

This is the characteristics of those who practice meditation in the beginning - the destroying of a lot of being and birth, The cycle of birth and death would be shortened and free from the cycle of birth and death. If to keep trying, the completely being free from suffering and peaceful would have occured.