Abstract

This thesis was mainly aimed to study of belief in Buddhist law of Kamma of the youth who partake the mediation retreat at Wat Khaosomphot, Wat Khaosomphot, Chaibadan district, Lopburi province. And aimed to study problems and recommendations regarding of belief in Buddhist law of Kamma of the youth who partake the mediation retreat at Wat Khaosomphot, Chaibadan district, Lopburi.

The sampling which used in this research is purposive sampling, referring to a population of 170 teenages meditation practitioners, who attended the meditation practice course at Wat Khaosomphot in between November  15 - December 30, 2013. In terms of research tool, this research specially used questionnaire, conducted by the researcher, which the coefficient of reliability was at 0.64. For research statistics, it used the statistical method of Mean, Percentage and Standard Deviation. In part of the statistics used in measuring the educational purposes and research, it used the Statistical distributions of species (T-dependent) and statistical analysis of covariance (Analysis of Covariance: ANOVA).

 The results of the study were found that the belief in the law of Kamma of the teenage meditation practitioners was at the highest level. Most teenage meditation practitioners were much responsible for looking after parents and having a great gratitude to parents because they believed that everyone must be under the law of Kamma and strongly agreed with the fact that all depends on the law of Kamma whether he/she is a good or not, according to the Buddha’s Kamma teaching.

About the individual factors, it is found that female sex has stronger belief in the law of Kamma than male sex, including having deferent beliefs as it was at the statistical significance level of 0.05.

In terms of problems and suggestions of the teenages meditation practitioners' beliefs in the law of Karma at Wat Khaosomphot, it found that most of 170 teenage meditation practitioners strongly believed that there is no hell and heaven; a man who passed away will not be born again; and a man who is in trouble must train oneself by practicing meditation for the sake of his life.

belief in the current law of Kamma if we look around. We will see a different life easily. Some are born in the home of billionaire and enjoy luxury life. At the same time, some people fall into poverty, hardships abounded. Some people are born beautiful and many people fall in love. Some people are born perfect body But some people are weak and oppressed threatening ailments. I was born with a disability, mental retardation. Some families live in happy harmony. But some families fight each other every day. This suggests that an individual's fate would have been that it is “law of Kamma”

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