A Study of Buddhist psychology Applied to Decrease Suicide Using the Lanna Life-Prolonging Ceremony

Abstract

   Composition on Buddhist psychology to reduce suicide decreasing by using the Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony, there are 3 objectives include 1) to study the history of the Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony and 2) applied of the Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony and strengthen one’s spirit power to reduce suicide decreasing, 3) analysis of Buddhist psychology to reduce suicide decreasing by using the Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony found that the suicide was caused by internal mental state of the offender. In Buddhism has principle of the development of life properly, By Buddhist lives of life on the Noble Eightfold Path which is the path leading to the cessation of suffering and it makes practitioners will be able to fix the problem or make life achieve the goal. How to know training one has mental strongly and patience to various emotional state, which the monks have missionaries teaching and relied on the mind of the person, teachings on the development of the mind with practice meditation, or to instill moral for loving in values of life. Teaching them for understand the four Noble Truths is the truth of life and encourage those who are considering suicide / had suicidal thoughts, to be able to have a normal social life again with the Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony with has highly influential. This suicide was caused from the faith of those who despair, discouraged in life. The Lanna’s tradition of prolonging life ceremony is a strategy to teach people since they were children to understand the religion according to their ages’ level and religious knowledge systemically, because ceremony is associated with the life of people, from birth until death and in activities of the life, the ceremony has promoted the value of mental of who arranging the ceremony or join in the ceremony was caused purity of heart, unity, generosity, assistance and sacrifice. The ceremony is also an essential, a critical role in the daily lives of human who is illness and to society as a whole, throughout an important ceremony of Lanna who had believed it is long life of people or the long life of the nation, people live happily and prosperous as well as eliminate the dangers that will befall the safe and reduce suicide in the end.