Happiness Development of Thai Citizens according to the Principles of Buddhism

Abstract

This academic article aims to use Buddhist principle, Five Aggregates (Khandhas) to be  as the principle for changing their thoughts and so  improve the lives of those who are  in the state of distress or hardship.  There are three principles including: (1) the Five Khandhas (Aggregates) teaching about the components of human body including four elements and five Khandhas which constantly change. The Buddha taught that even birth is suffering, when this was understood in terms of its principles, one should not become attached to it and let his/her mind in peace; (2) life that will be success, progress or happy living should encounter with suffering and difficulties first, called common happiness; (3) when there is happiness, one should develop it as the ultimate happiness called enlighten insight (bhodhiñāṇa) which belongs to the noble one