Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to study bringing the moral principles to reduce violence in the present society. The researcher have three purposes in that 1) to study the merits in the Theravada Buddhist Scriptures, 2) to study the state of violence in society, and 3) to study the application of principle of loving-kindness to reduce violence in society. This research is qualitative research.

The result was found that compassion in the Buddhist scriptures means that the virtuous deeds which generate the benefits to all sentient beings as its character, having brought its benefits within as its function, abandon ill-will as its result, seeing the prosperity of others as its base and having subdue the ill-will as its manner. This loving-kindness appears as non-violence which causes the kind deeds, non-revenge and not having a feud through bodily, verbal and mental acts. In opposite, this loving-kindness generates non-violence, benefits of each other, peaceful society. In aspect of social violence, it revealed that most cause of violence comes from family such as beating children and other harmful acts to children. Such violence will happen again and again in future therefore family must apply this loving-kindness for family.The way to apply loving-kindness to reduce violence in society found that society would apply in policy to say no to all kind of human violence, not support any acts with violence on bodily, verbal and mental manners. The doctrine in Buddhist can be adapted to lead the life. Buddhism do not accept the practice of all violence, both physical and verbal, because Buddhism is a religion of kindness, love, generosity. This includes non-encroachment. It can be said that Buddhist does not accept the practice of violence. After that, one should follow other virtues which enrich loving-kindness  in advance until the public see and know the value of loving-kindness by arranging the positive activities regarding loving-kindness in every areas such as individual, family and public activities which everybody and society valuate and gain the profits of this virtue together.

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