The Enhancement of Community Well-Being using the Principle of Sure Practise (Apa??akapa?ipad?)

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the concept of enhancement of the community well-being, 2) to study the principle of sure practice (Apa??akapa?ipad?) of community well-being promotion, and 3) to propose the ways to enhance community well-being according to the principle of sure practice. Qualitative research using documentary study, in-depth interviews and non-participatory were designed. Results indicated that 1) the enhancement of the community well-being refers to promoting and supporting man’s behaviors and community to have good physical, mental, social, intellectual well-being leading to the quality of life such as the keeping of body in the clean condition, health checking-up, eating hygienic food, exercising, avoiding behaviors giving rise to unhealthiness, seeking for body of knowledge. 2) Guidelines was suggested that the ways to develop sure practice (Apa??akapa?ipad?) for enhancing the community well-being are of the following ways: (2.1) while seeing and hearing, one should see and hear only what could benefit oneself, one should sleep and wake up in accordance with life’s clock, one should neither attach nor not attach to any taste of food, one should not get angry, one should possess moral shame and moral dread, (2.2) one should moderately consume four requisites through considering its advantages and disadvantages and one should be content with whatever one possesses,  and (2.3) one should be mindful in making effort in working for earning the costs of living, one should have public mind giving hand to whatever is needed by the public. 3) It is expected that one would bodily and mentally become a healthy person giving rise to the good to family and society wherein one can completely solve the intractable problems faced by oneself and society and thereby creating ‘the well-being community’ respectively.