Promoting the Happiness of the Monks in a New Normal of Life Society, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

             The objects of this article were : 1) to study the monks happiness promoting, 2) to analyze Buddhadham or the Buddhist doctrine in the monks happiness promoting, and 3) to present the monks happiness promoting.

            The results showed that:

            The monks physical problems are the monks have diseases like obesity, diabetes, and other complications. They don’t take exercise and rather eat unsuitable, unselected food so they are not healthy. The monks mental problems are the leader monks who have many responsibilities feel serious and take not enough rest. These are the causes of the physically and mentally healthy problems of the monks in Chaiyaphum provine.

             The doctrines to support happiness are Dhamma of Age or age doctrines which are the age-supporting Dhamma, helpful for life living. The doctrines are the following: having sufficiency, eating digestible food, observing Sila or Precepts to keep physical and mental normal, and lddhipada or the paths of accomplishment. These doctrines help the monks promote the life developing process, prevent diseases, have mindfulness and realize the disease dangers.

            The way to help the monks feel relaxant is optimism as to consider how to promote the physical happiness by often exercising and eating healthy food, and to promote the mental happiness by praying and taking meditation to prevent greed, anger and delusion and so on.