Meditation Center has been set up to foster morality in Thai youths

The Moral Center and Chonpratan Rangsarit Temple has opened the Meditation Center, aimed at fostering morality in children, and they also have an objective to build meditation rooms in schools across Thailand.

Police Inspector-General Seripisut Temiyavej, the interim head of the Moral Center, cited that the current Thai society is leaning towards materialism, and people do not develop their minds as much as they used to. As a result, the society is experiencing confusion and disorder.

He said the Meditation Center has been set up to train people to meditate and control their minds. The center would like Thai youths to realize the importance of meditation. The center plans to coordinate with schools nationwide to join this project.

Meanwhile, an abbot who teaches meditation said the center will provide meditative trainings on Saturdays and Sundays, and amateur to advanced meditation practitioners can take part in this project.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 4 December 2006

it's bringing religion back into schools and going to days when monks were the only teachers.

why kids can't go to the temple - which is usually near the school anyway. There are far more temples than schools.

designing a special meditation room and keeping it open on weekends when nobody is there is just wasting resources and window dressing - nothing else.

I don't a slight reason (only as to controll kids minds for the state) why police in engaged in this action - it suppose to be an education, maybe in this case with a help from monks.

It's the police (and army) which are the most corrupted part of the governmental administration and every kid knows about it very well - giving the power to organise the Moral Centre to the police general is a joke from the thai society

Kids meditating sounds like a good idea but as far as I know this doesn't really happen much anywhere in the world. Most meditation practices (especially Buddhist ones) have the purpose of training the mind to be focused. Children's minds are developing and they are famous for not being focused...its part of being a child perhaps....I don't know for sure but it seems unlikely that anyone will get a large percentage of children to meditate in my opinion....and this has nothing to do with the stresses of modern living since I think its been this way forever.

Chownah