According what the Buddha taught, every Buddhist followers can practice the Buddha’s teaching in order to escape all of the sufferings and attain the genuine happiness that is nirvana. However, the way of understanding could be affected by people’s background and environment. It is needed to have some ideas suitable for modern life style, and let people without any religious belief also can accept them easily. UG5 is the shortened form of Universal Goodness Five. It is a very new good concept that means the fi ve kinds of universal goodness including cleanliness, orderliness, politeness, punctuality, and concentration. In this research, the concepts of UG5 was used to develop a series of retreat programs, and all of these retreat programs aimed to let the trainees enhance their practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. The objects of this research are to design and act the UG5 retreat programs for enhancing the Noble Eightfold Path practice in daily life.
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Introduction 151 The Action Research 151 The Noble Eightfold Path 152 The UG 5 (Universal Goodness Five) 154 The Analysis of Results 157 Conclusion 162
