AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEBTOR’S HAPPINESS GROWTH ACCORDING TO FOURFOLD DIVISION OF WEALTH

Abstract

      The objectives of this research article were: 1) to study general Knowledge about the debt and 2) to analyze a practical way of the happiness growth According to the fourfold division of wealth. This research was conducted based on Documentary Research Methodology and concluded with descriptive analysis.

     The result of the study found that: General knowledge about the debt referred to the people’s daily live in accordance with the continuously-made debt, A main cause of this debt was consumerism and a way of destruction, A number of the debtors who got the legal loan increased continuously. The result caused suffering and affected greatly on societies and economics. If the debtors could manage a credit or a loan for self-consummation efficiently, they could get happy in life.

     A way of the Debtor’s Happiness Growth according to the Fourfold Division of Wealth was in the following aspects. The first division was to pay wealth according to the plan of moderate payment for the high quality or great benefits in life by means of the threefold contentment. The second division was to save up wealth by paying economically and saving money for life according to a set of four vitues (Cakka). The third division was to make the investment for increasing a pile of wealth. Buddhism provided papanika-dhamma for a good investor: Cakkuma (a good vision), Vidhuro (clear understanding of business) and Nissaya-sampanno (good preparation of capital and factors of production). Moreover, it was necessary to use the principle of gain for this life to support the investment for more success and happiness in life.