Abstract

This research is the analyzation of the 5 Ayussa Dhammas :- The 5 Doctrinal principles which help a person to have a long life as appearing in Theravada Buddhist Seritures.  It is of three objectives, namely :- 1. to study the importance of the live and the age appearing in the Buddhist scriptures, 2. to study the importance of the state of having a long life as appearing in the Buddhist scriptures, 3. to analytically study the 5 Ayussa Dhammas as the doctrines supporting a person to live long as appearing in the Buddhist scriptures.

From the research, it is found that the importance of the live and the age appearing in the Buddhist scriptures is that the live is the meeting organ of the five aggregates; the form, the feeling, the concept, the essential condition and consciousness all of which are the causes and factors arising according to the natural low, and can be in existence, because the mentioned co-operations are of completion and balance.  The beginning of life is the birth and the end of the life is the death.  During the birth and the death, it is the time when all the living beings are alive.  They are called the ones with ages.  Their lives are being carried out with the relationship with the world through their sense spheres as the connective instruments.  They are under the natural laws :- the impermanence, the state of suffering and the state of being not self.  To receive the state of life are age it the person’s inner noble treasure which is more valuable than all the outside treasures.  Such the inner treasure can be the instrument for well living and for leading the life to happiness at different levels the highest of which is Nibbana.

The importance of the state of living long as appearing in the Buddhist scriptures means to live long with values, that is to carry out the life without indolence, not to be pleased with the past and the future, but to make a benefit and a value one’s own present life for the benefit and happiness which are the aims of life. The Buddhist principles emphasize the building up of the health or the co-operated happy state to the life on 4 sides namely : the body, the society, the mind and the wisdom, emphasizing the development of mind to be of  wisdom causing the life in connection with the outside nature both in the body and in the society.

There are 5 principles of Ayussa Dhammas.  They are :- 1. Sappayakari, to build up Sappaya.  That is 1. to do anything with beneficial conditions to one’s health, 2. to know proper condition and do the thing properly, 3. To eat what is easy to be digested. 4. to behave oneself properly in the matter of the time such as knowing the time, working at the right time 5. to know how to behave Brahama-Coriya properly.  These 5 principles of Ayussa Dhamma are suitable for the ages which are in compliance with the way of protecting the health or the united happy states of life on four sides, namely:- the bodily one, the social one, the mental one and the intellectual one.  It is the idea or the principle of practice which unites the method of carrying out the good and right life according to the natural law to be in compliance with the happiness which is in compliance with the aim of life.