Effects of Anapanasati training on serenity, meaning and purpose in life, and genuineness of the beginning practitioners in monthly Anapanasati training program at international dhamma hermitage
Abstract:
To study the effects of anapanasati training on serenity, meaning and purpose in life and genuineness of beginning practitioners in monthly anapanasati training program at International Dhamma Hermitage, Suanmoke Chaiya, Surajthanee. The research was quasi-experimental research. There were 1 experimental group and 1 control group. Research design was pretest-posttest control group. The samples were 46 Thai people whom were assigned by purposive sampling to an experimental group and a control group, each group comprising 23 persons. The experimental group participated continuously for 7 days in anapanasati training in monthly anapanasati training program at International Dhamma Hermitage. The control group did not participate the training and lived normally. The instruments used in this study were the serenity test, the meaning and purpose in life test, and the genuineness test. The instruments were given to each of samples before and after training program. The analysis of t-test and analysis of covariance were used for data analysis. The results indicated that 1. The posttest level of serenity and the posttest level of genuineness of the experimental group were higher than their pretest level at .05 level of significance. 2. The posttest level of meaning and purpose in life of the expermental group was not higher than its pretest level at .05 level of significance. 3. The posttest level of serenity and the posttest level of genuineness of the expermental group were higher than the posttest level of the control group at .05 level of significance. 4. The posttest level of meaning and purpose in life of the experimental group was not higher than the posttest level of the control group at .05 level of significance.