DHAMMA PRINCIPLES AND OFFENDERS

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the applying of appropriate dharma principles for offenders. The action research was done to gather dhamma principles, forms and procedure which appropriated for offenders and to rehabilitate the offenders to be a good citizen without committing the crime again.

          According to the study, it was found that the initially important principle of dhamma that was employed to the offenders was “consciousness”. To create consciousness and concentration in oneself brought about thinking procedure of the brain, noticing the truth of dhamma principles, being sensible, being aware of life according to “apperception and wisdom”. Moreover, the offenders could know and pay attention to oneself with the right way and could create the protection to oneself in order not to commit the crime again. The ways to improve those offenders was to let the offenders learn through different forms. The result showed that “dhamma principles which appropriated for the offenders” were 1)the relations of greed, anger and delusion in oneself, 2)shame of sins, 3)five groups of personality, 4)consciousness, 5)Samudaya (the truth of the origin of suffering), 6)senses, 7) restraint of senses, 8)dishonesty, 9)the 5 faculties, 10)charity, virtue and spiritual cultivation, 11)heart, 12)suffering, 13)sensuality, 14)the 1,500 defilements and the 108 passions and 15) sixteen causes of sorrow.