THE FIVE PRECEPTS VILLAGE: A COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

        This article aimed at presenting the principles and the approaches concerning the Five Precepts in Promoting the Five precepts Observation of the Villages with the sustainable cooperation of organizations and agencies involved: as the idea of Supreme Patriarch Somdejphramaharachamungalajarn (Chuang Varapunno), he encouraged the sangha throughout the country to carry out the Project on Five Precepts Observation of the Villages to be relevant to the policy of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). Its policy was to encourage all the agencies in any level to build harmony and unity with the nationals to promote the morality and ethic for living their lives so as to neither violate the mutual rights nor take advantage of each other. Therefore, he brought the strategy on creating value and conscience to make people aware of morality and ethic including the principle of sufficiency economy to improve the quality of their lives along with the Buddhist doctrines: the five precepts for solving problems in the society leading to build and develop people to live their lives together in social inclusion peacefully and happily, so it deserved so-called Five Precepts Observation of the Villages.