YONISOMANASIKARA: BUDDHIST WAY OF LIFE IN THE ONLINE COMMUNITY

Abstract

This academic article focuses on studying a person's lifestyle in social media and offers a Buddhist approach to social media lifestyle. It has been found that living in social media has become a major problem that greatly affects people's lives nowadays or is involved and results in a variety of social problems. According to a statistical survey of social media usage behaviors that affect people's lifestyle at a high level. It means that online media has come to influence and relate to the lifestyle of society by changing the behavior of society. It is found both on a smaller scale, individually, and dynamically, driven at the macro level. Social media has become a necessary factor for people in the news era. Online media is therefore like a "double-edged sword" that offers both benefits and harms. Therefore, appropriate decision must be made before considering utilizing online media by adopting important principles and practices, namely living in social media with the principle of "Yoni Somanasikara" based on understanding, respect for oneself and others and conformity to the principles of cause and effect that must be true. It contributes to creative wisdom and leads to good deeds that are beneficial both to oneself and to others. Living in this Buddhist social media is like a causal way to fruition, i.e., to change society in a way that is beneficial and happy, a change that starts from within a person's self. And then spread it to society as a whole.