สำนักงานราชบัณฑิตยสภา

การปฏิ บั ติ เศรษฐธรรมเพื่อส่งเสริ มการพั ฒนาเศรษฐกิ จ 416 The Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand Vol. 41 No. 2 April-June 2016 Abstract: Economic Dharma Practice to support Economic Development Vorawoot Hirunruk Associate Fellow of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, The Royal Society of Thailand. Dharma Practice in Buddhism is becoming more popular amoug young people of Thailand. Dharma Practice are widely made in many temples, dwellings of priests, independent Dharma retreats, hotels and resorts in urban and remote areas. Activities of Dharma Practices mainly consist of chantings and meditations, aiming to give practitioner peaceful mindness, release and non-adherence to exteriors and self-body and to ignore the outside world. The Economic Dharma Practice is to add the element of economic Development contents and economic development activities to general Dharma Practice cirriculum. Economic Dharma Practice consists of chanting, medition, vowing to be good citizens, and wish for good quality from birth to death. Economic Dharma Practice will help to generate Thai citizens with good morality and self-discriplinary and iniative minds to support self-development and social and economic development of the country. Keywords: Dharmma Practice, Economic Dharmma Practice, Chanting, Meditation, Vowing Self-dedication, Wish