This thesis is of 3 objectives: 1) to study working problems affecting the working and the way of living lives of the labour’s work in Continental Knitting Ltd., Part. 2) to study the principle of mindfulness in Theravada Buddhism, and 3) to apply the principle of mindfulness to the development of working with happiness of manufacturing labour’s work of Continental Knitting Ltd., Part.It is a field-work qualitative research with the following findings:

            1) The problems and barriers of working in Continental Knitting Ltd., Part. are of: the manufacturing labours still lack of serious working attention as of lacking concentration and mindfulness; they do not aware of the problems and mistakes that will affect the organization; and there is the working problem on transferring jobs in each shift causing the new shift workers not knowing the arisen problem earlier.

            2) Mindfulness in Buddhism is of awareness, attentiveness, remembering, not being drifted or careless, doing every action with care, being responsible without neglect, awakening while working, together with the knowing whether the action is good or bad, useful or useless, should do or not, knowing to carefully consider, deliberateness, not making mistake or wracking; another implication is having mindfulness, the being careful.

            3) To apply the principle of mindfulness to the development of working with happiness of manufacturing labour’s work by the training in the project activity of praying and meditating together; it is found that the labours are chilled out, discreet, not aggressive, able to control oneself, being longer patient, being reasonable; they carefully communicate with one another, have more sympathy towards one another; they are careful, not misunderstanding, not forgetful, not drifted, having the state of awakening and conscious, easy to control one’s emotion.  The outcome is the better manufacturing in terms of safety, the obvious less rate of the loss of products from the mistake done by the machine controller, the working efficiency is qualified. 

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