Rules are Rules: The Buddha Taught Buddhist Leadership, Phanthai Norasingh Practiced

Abstract

This academic article aims to reflect practical leadership that emphasizes ‘Straightness’ in administrative language, uses the word ‘transparent, verifiable, good governance’ or in the Buddhist maxim, the word ‘straightness’ is used as ‘Straightforward – Yathāvādī Tathākārī’ means ‘say what you do.’ It is a documentary study from texts and research works, and then write down in the form of an academic article. The study found that leadership is one of the key points of a leader. The leaders who are the leaders have to be ethical or practice the ethics of leadership. As appeared in the Buddha's time when the Lord Buddha spoke before he passed away: ‘Dhamma and discipline will be His Majesty's prophets,’ which means principles have to be important principles. In addition, when you have principles, you have to follow them. As the Buddha said, whatever words you say, follow those words. It is a quality of leaders who have to put into practice. From a lecture on 21 October 2023 at Wat Intharam, it was applied the Buddha's conduct through leadership according to the Buddha's principles such as preaching the robber Angulimala, solving the immediate problem in the case of Mrs. Jinchamanawika, conquering the devil, which were all about leadership and reflected in the history of the Buddha through the conduct of Buddha statues in different poses. Furthermore, the person who was the subject of the proposal, namely Phanthai Norasingh. The historical interpretation has not yet concluded whether it existed or not. But it reflected on the behavioral issue of being faithful to the principle of ‘rules are rules,’ which used the death as a tool. It was consistent with the Buddhist guidelines that ‘Sacrificing organs to save life, and sacrificing your life to preserve the Dhamma,’ which was truly considered leadership according to Buddhist principles. The body of knowledge from this article found about truthfulness Pan Thaksin put into practice until he became an example of honesty and straightforward principles.