Slow Life: Meaning and the Way of Life in Pun Pun Community, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province
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This research article aimed to study the meaning of life, the definition of slow life, and way of life in Pun Pun community, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province. The qualitative method by way of hermeneutic phenomenology was used in this study. The key informants consisted of 5 inhabitants in Pun Pun community. Data were collected by utilizing the in-depth interview. The content was analyzed by hermeneutic phenomenology together with the application of the meaning of life theory. Collected data were verified by key informants and a thesis advisor.
The results of the research were divided into three main issues; the first issue was the meaning of life, where key informants defined their meaning of life through experiences which could be categorized into three main themes: 1) self-value, 2) value of having the freedom to determine one's own life, and 3) value of doing beneficial things for others; the second issue was slow life, which was the way key informants determined to live rhythmically with the context of their surroundings, which comprised two secondary points namely 1) Slow life was an independent life acting according to the inner melody, 2) Slow life operated rhythmically; and the third issue was the way of life, which was the pattern of life embodying behavior, idea, and attitude which affected how one chose to live a life, consisted of the following: 1) The way of daily life according to particular season, and 2) The way of life that aimed to develop inner experience.
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