Wednesday, 04/15/2026
Posts
What is Buddhism’s solution for these problems?
Update: 23/03/2018
The youth education’s program needs to orient following: support condition and environment for the young one to cultivate conduct, improve realization of the nature and value of life, taking the Buddha’s teaching as a guide for a happy life.
First, they need a good and cheerful environment. Set up a good background is the primal step because the modern life supports so many unwholesome playgrounds where can allure and ruin the young people easily. The temple background giving virtuous friends and teachers is a good playground for them.
Second, there are three fields: knowledge, skill, and conduct, therein focus on life skills’ training as self-control, psychology-control, moderate behavior, and health training’s skill. These skills, Buddhism has the advantage than others. For example, contemplative skill training is one of the raising solutions for the quality of the modern life which is dealing with so much stress and pressure from work, study and even emotional stress. Doing yoga and qigong also helps improving health for the young people.
Third, to attract the youth we have to set up a flexible program in activities, which can keep balance in most of the fields: the moral, the practice, the relaxing, the music, friend connection…It means to engage the youth the program should be accordance with the mental youth and their beautiful dreams. The training ways should be practical to give the inspiration and interest value they had found nowhere before but a temple.
It really a hard problem for the normal temple to taking burdening education the youth, but it’s fully possible for the Buddhist Church departments at root levels. We had some organizing experiences such as Buddhist Family, the Buddhist Youth Club, and some temples had organized some programs as One-day Retreat or Student Cultivation Course… to give a good playground for training the youth. Now what we need is a good policy to provide a legal corridor, build a strong stuff for making short and long-term plan reasonably, then we can bear excellent fruit in leading a moral life for the young people. As such, it contributes to making a peaceful and civilized community in society.
Hope that the future of the nation will be healthy growing base on the true, good and beautiful to preserve and develop the nation’s traditional cultural value.
Since: “the temple protects the national soul, it’s timeless habitude from the past”.
Hiếu Thuận