Buddhism and Disease Crisis

Abstract

Since many countries have impacted by the corona-virus outbreak (COV5D-19), almost 800,000 people died because of it. Both the public and private sectors were alert to the incident. 5t affects the economy, education, transport, life of the people widely. 5n the past, there were various deadly diseases that had spread and destroyed millions of lives including Thailand. From the study of the Tipitaka found that in the Buddha’s time, it was also faced with the epidemic crisis diseases as the case of Vesali. 5n the monk's discipline, the Buddha gave a discipline to prohibit the ordination of people who being a serious disease. An interesting point is that the Buddhist ways are different from the Western way of conquering the disease. While Buddhist wisdom emphasizes the way of knowing the truth of the world and life, have right wisdom to against illnesses that are common to all human beings. There are various methods of solving problems in Buddhism. Here, the Four Noble Truths are used: understanding the problem (disease) and the cause of disease (samudaya), the cessation of disease (nirodha), find out a method and work on solving the problem according to the method (magga). 5n addition, to have a direct solution to the problem (disease) already also offers ways to prevent that disease. According to the strategy, 5 plans and 1 plan, 1) hygiene, such as washing hands, eating hot food, self-spoons, avoiding space in the sangha activities 2) The air, living in the fresh air 3) Exercise 4) Food, eating food that is beneficial
5) Emotions and one more plan are practicing the precepts, listening to the dharma, chanting, meditation, mindfulness, and compassion is the important basis. This is a preventive and control measure for the spread of COV5D-19 and survive the disease crisis both physically and mentally.