DHARMA AND THE POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE ON THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Abstract

The Buddha used dharma to live his life, dharma, and religious teachings as a tool to hold people in love and compassion for one another. If people adhere to the Dharma and education of the Buddha, they will live in peace and respect each other's rights and freedoms. But the problems that arise today all come from people's need for more adherence to the Dharma teachings in Buddhism. Democracy is a way of governance that emphasizes the principles of justice. Hold dharma as the principle of governing. They are upholding legitimacy as a decision-making tool to support the government.

This article was written to apply the concept of Dharma to people's politics in the way of Dhammadhitai. Contains dharma ten things, including 1) charity, 2) high moral character, 3) self-sacrifice 4) honesty. 5) kindness and gentleness 6) self-control 7) non-anger 8) non-violence 9) patience 10) non-opposition to be used as the principle of goodness, correctness, and equality as the principle of governance for the general society to be happy.