THE SUBLIME STATES OF MIND AND ADMINISTRATORS IN VISUDDHI MAGGA SCRIPTURE

Abstract

Under the conflict crisis of Thai political society at present, there is a confusion  of demanding for democracy of the student mob. In the midst of Covid-19 pandemic that has spread all over the world and affected every country in terms of economic downturn and increasing inequality. This article discusses students’ movement under the changing political and social context in modern period and projects the cause of the movement including development mechanism of social process, especially on the concept, and tactics leading to changing movement of the students in modern day. This brings about to a revision of direction, argument and exchange towards students’ role and innovative social activity that are one of the Thai ideological characteristics expected by society.

            The first apparently students’ process regarding politics took place in B.E. 2500. The process has gone through many major political changes, struggling along in the demand for democracy since from the past up to the present. The coup in B.E. 2557 led to the present political movement starting from students’ discontentment upon the coup undertaken by the National Council of Peace and Order (NCPO). The general election in B.E. 2562 was expected to bring about the exercise of right in order to gear forward the country into a new direction. But the right and intention have been distorted and toppled by those who wanted to hold on to power. The dissatisfaction bursts out in a form of political movement per se.