Enhancement of Elder People’s Spiritual Well - Being According to Buddhism Doctrines

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The purposes of this research were  1) to study aging people’s spiritual felicity and 2) to enhance aging people’s spiritual felicity according to Buddhism doctrines. In addition, it is a qualitative research and uses narrative analysis to present its details.
The findings of this research revealed following:
1) The well-being of the elderly spiritual feeling to favour continuity between ourselves with other people. Nature, outside the self, which, as an end to the suffering of hypoglycaemia or affliction, intellectual, social and physical, mental, can finally show satisfaction or admire their experience and are happy to carry out their duties as normal. It is also a process to take care of myself properly, according to the international standards.
2) Enhancement of aging people’s spiritual felicity according to Buddhism doctrines consists of generosity (Dãna), ethical preservation, meditative praying, merciful distribution in order initiate loving-kindness, mercifulness, sympathy. It enables practitioners to make clear reflection towards life problems for self-development with strength and internal power for enriching spiritual felicity. Hence, promotion of Buddhism doctrine practices enables aging people to find meaning of internal life so that spiritual felicity will be gradually enhanced.