Buddhist Ecological: Developing a Sustainable life

Abstract

This article aims to present the perspective of development sustainable Life, the level of sustainable development, the fundamental factors of sustainability concept, and the Buddhist Integral for Sustainable Development.  Also, this study aims to propose guidelines for sustainable development based on the concept of Buddhist ecology.

The documents   methodology was used in this study by collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information in relation to the factors of sustainable development, models of sustainability, the level of sustainable development, and the gap of sustainable development. The study found that the definition of sustainable development is fundamentally based on a sustainable relationship between three factors: social factor, economic factor, and environmental factor. Usually, sustainable development is considered after the emergence of environmental problems from economic development based on the concept of capitalism. Therefore, it is believed that if these kinds of problems are solved, the sustainability will be created. However, it found that in the past years human activities had been changing the ecosystem more rapidly than ever before. The influence from the Reductionism concept led the people to misunderstand that they were the cleverest creatures and could overcome the nature’s power. In fact, they had damaged nature, the environment, the economy and society. In addition, the excess development may have caused human selfishness and lack of spirit on responsibility of everything. The application of Buddhist integration to ecosystem for sustainable mind and social development, analyzed from case studies, found that the Threefold Training--Sila, Samadhi, and Panna—was the dhamma that all sectors had already applied but may have used different dhamma words. But the working process demonstrated that these three dhammas cannot be separated, specifically in this research called “Buddhist integral” and development will change according to the Dependent Origination or to the states arise in dependence upon the related factors. Furthermore, if any organization would apply the Threefold Training doctrine, it could hope that the ecology will be nurtured successfully while attaining the sustainable mind and social development.