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In order to prepare them for more 
advanced levels 
of study when they grow up. Such 
standards will 
translate into a child's behaviours 
and become his 
own second nature. It's a self-
generated rather than 
an imposed discipline. That's why 
IPE has long 
term beneficial effects on its 
students. On the 
advanced level, meditation by 
students 
consolidates the process of IPE in 
the long run. 
Meditation is a good catalyst, 
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because it helps youth 
see and understand themselves 
better, know their 
own needs and serve those needs 
in a more 
productive way. The IBS see IPE 
as lifelong 
education. 
The main learning activities at the 
elementary 
level, used by the IBS is the `Path 
of Progress' Ethics 
Quiz Contest' and `the Home of 
Peace' (HOP). 
These two projects have about 4 
million students 
participating annually throughout 
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Thailand and 
receive cooperation from 13,000 
schools and 
educational institutions. 
The `Path of Progress' provides 
students with a 
peace manual for students to study 
as an extracurricular 
activity and an annual contest to 
compete in. Winners in each 
category receive 
honorific plaques, certificates and 
scholarships to 
motivate and stimulate their 
interest. By reading 
the Manual of Peace different 
topics will capture 
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each student's imagination 
according to their 
disposition. It will guide them to 
see the good and 
bad sides of their own character 
and motivate 
them to want to improve 
themselves become more 
productive. They transform by 
means of internally 
derived discipline, rather than 
discipline needing 
to be imposed from outside. They 
change by their 
own willingness to become a more 
responsible 
person. 
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The `Path of Progress' is 
complemented by a 
second project called the `Home of 
Peace' —
especially to supplement younger 
childrens' 
understanding of peace — to see if 
they 
differentiate peace and non-peace 
in their daily 
lives. The project provides a `diary 
of peace' for 
the children to write down their 
own good deeds 
and good deeds done toward their 
parents, 
teachers and extended family. 
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Since any deeds 
done every day can become habits, 
the IBS seeks 
to value to overlook a child's 
seemingly 
insignificant good deeds because 
these might be 
the root cause of their success in 
the future. Every 
child tends to have his or her own 
hero. If their 
hero is a worthy role model, it will 
inspire them to 
become a virtuous global citizen. 
On the contrary, 
with a negative role model, they 
can become public 
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enemy no.1. In this respect, adults 
play an 
important role in presenting a 
model of peace to 
the young people around them. By 
reading, 
writing and practising peace every 
day, with the 
co-operation of parents and school, 
IPE will 
eventually become a child's 
second nature 
allowing them to respond to every 
situation by 
peaceful means. 
For young people who show their 
readiness to 
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Thai royalty & international 
organizations award 
plaques. Winners of `Path of 
Progress' championships in 
the various categories receive 
plaques and scholarships from 
H.M. the King of Thailand and 
numerous international 
organizations. 
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learn at the advanced level, there 
are a futher three 
projects: 
• Leadership Training Program: 
this scheme 
attracts young people by providing 
advanced 
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IPE training in personality 
enhancement, 
public speaking, meditation and 
social 
affirmation — and it is these 
young people 
who go on to become `supervisor' 
volunteers 
who organize the `Path of 
Progress' 
throughout Thailand annually. 
• Dhammadayada Ordination 
Scheme: During 
the Ordination Scheme, the IPE 
used includes 
Buddhist teachings made relevant 
to the 
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needs of young men in Thai 
society. This 
activity is rooted in the Thai 
tradition that 
when a man reaches the age of 
twenty he 
should take temporary ordination 
as a 
Buddhist monk for a period to 
learn spiritual 
values first hand. This course 
comprises two 
months of intense study of IPE. 
Participants 
study and practice spiritual values 
incorporated into their daily 
routine to make 
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sure that improved habits are 
properly 
instilled and that those habits will 
survive the 
transfer back to daily life when 
they return to 
their everyday life. 
• Ladies' Dhammadayada 
Training Scheme: the 
Ladies version of the 
Dhammadayada 
training is as intensive in IPE 
concepts as that 
of the gentlement, but participants 
are not 
required to ordain as nuns. 
At the advanced level, IPE projects 
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seek to train 
university students who can act as 
organizers 
of IPE project managers 
themselves. It is because 
of the trainees of these sort of 
courses that the 
IBS has managed to run activities 
such as the 
`Path of Progress' continuously 
now for more 
than twenty years. The unifying 
feature of the 
advanced projects for IPE is an 
increased 
emphasis on meditation. 
18 A Manual of Peace: 38 Steps 
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towards Enlightened Living 
A. Aiguttara NikAya (PTS 
Edition) 
AA. ManorathapEraAE - AIguttara 
NikAya Commentary (PTS 
Edition) 
Ap. ApadAna (PTS Edition) 
D. DEgha NikAya (PTS Edition) 
DA. SumaIgala VilAsinE - DEgha 
NikAya Commentary (PTS 
Edition) 
Dh. Dhammapada (PTS Edition) 
DhA. Dhammapada Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
DhSA. AtthasAlinE - 
DhammasaigaAE Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
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It. Itivuttaka (PTS Edition) 
J. JAtaka (PTS Edition) 
KhpA. KhuddakapAEha 
Commentary (PTS Edition) 
M. Majjhima NikAya (PTS 
Edition) 
MA. Paparica SEdanE - Majjhima 
NikAya Commentary (PTS 
Edition) 
MT. MahAvaOsa-TEkA 
Mil. Milindapariha (PTS Edition) 
MNidA. MahA Niddesa 
Commentary (PTS Edition) 
Ndl MahA Niddesa (PTS Edition) 
Nd2 CEla Niddesa (PTS Edition) 
Nd2A. CEla Niddesa Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
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PsA. PaEisambhidAmagga 
Commentary (PTS Edition) 
PTS Pali Text Society of London 
S. SaOyutta NikAya (PTS Edition) 
SA. SAratthappakAsinE -
SaOyutta NikAya Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
SadS. SaddhammasaIgaha (P.T.S. 
Journal 1890) 
SN. Sutta NipAta (PTS Edition) 
SNA. Sutta NipAta Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
ThagA. TherAgathA Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
Ud. UdAna (PTS Edition) 
Vbh. Vibhanga (PTS Edition) 
Vin. Vinaya (PTS Edition) 
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Vism. Visuddhimagga (PTS 
Edition) 
Vv. VimAnavatthu (PTS Edition) 
VvA. VimAriavatthu Commentary 
(PTS Edition) 
Abbreviations 
Orientation 19 
A. INTRODUCTION 
Welcome to the Manual of Peace. 
This orientation 
deals with the principles of ethical 
study and the 
value of the Thirty-Eight Blessings 
contained in this 
manual. The Manual of Peace 
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contains subject matter 
which is not difficult 
indeed it 
is very popular 
in Thailand especially amongst 
school children 
where over 4,000,000 annually 
take examinations 
in it. In schools where vocational 
subjects rob the 
curriculum of more and more time 
previously dedicated 
for spiritual studies, the 
Thirty-Eight Blessings 
have been forming an 
extra-curricular recompense 
in spiritual studies for children in 
Thailand 
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since 1982. 
A.1 Why study spiritual 
knowledge ? 
The first question that comes to 
mind for many people 
studying this book is to ask why 
academic or 
material knowledge is not 
sufficient to get by in the 
world. If a full stomach and a place 
to sleep were 
enough to keep the human happy 
then we wouldn't 
have to go to the trouble of 
studying about ethics 
or about spirituality. However, for 
every human 
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being, there is something deeper 
inside us which is 
always searching for the answers 
to questions on a 
deeper level — something which 
seeks for purpose 
and meaning in the life we live and 
the world 
around us. If supporting yourself 
were all there was 
to life then certainly millionnaires 
would be the happiest 
people on earth. Unfortunately 
wealth can 
only buy physical comfort —
money cannot buy 
the means to nurtur e or nourish 
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the mind. For all 
our qualifications and diplomas we 
might have, 
none of them can guarantee us 
against hunger of 
the mind. On the contrary, the 
irresponsible people 
may use their cunning to do more 
heinous crimes 
than they would do if they weren't 
educated. Thus 
worldly education cannot 
guarantee us a happy life 
or guarantee that we will not end 
up in jail. This is 
why we make the distinction 
between worldly and 
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