ENHANCING HONESTY VALUES OF FAMILY INSTITUTION ACCORDING TO PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM

Abstract

This article was to study enhancing honesty values of family institution in accordance with the principle of Buddhism, using mixed methods. It was found that the model that was suitable and consistent with the current situation was a form of social relationship network, called the “Faithful Family Network”, a Buddhist way that aimed to work between all the stakeholders at the local level from small to large scale by using the project that reconciled  with  Buddhist principles, that was, the 5 Precepts Observing Village  Program as the foundation. The primary missions of this project were to promote continuous reconciliation with public mental activities, promote livelihood according to the sufficiency economy philosophy and create peaceful social immunity, promote warm family immunity through the participatory process, promote the dissemination of knowledge, analytical thinking, and positive speech techniques, and to promote the health and immunity treatment from drugs addiction with a warm family lifestyle.