This Qquantitative Research of Personal Growth according to the Four Noble Truths of the Aging in the Wat Chaichimplee community  in Bangkok aimed 1) to study the level of the truth of suffering of the Aging in Wat Chaichimplee community 2) to study the level of Personal Growth according to the Four Noble Truths of the Aging in the Wat Chaichimple community and 3) to study the relationship and influence between personal factors and the truth of suffering with of Personal Growth according to the Four Noble Truths. This research design is cross-sectional descriptive survey research. The questionnaire was a data collection instrument. The reliability of the overall questionnaire of 35 Items was 0.93. The sample, randomized by Nonprobability sampling, consisted of 126 aging of Wat Chaichimplee community.  The results are as follows;

             1. Demographic characteristics of the Aging of the Wat Chaichimplee community was 54.6% of male and 45.2 of female. Most of an age range is between 60-66 years was 56.5 % (average of age is 69.3 years), 7.2% of them is primary school graduates, 47.6%  lived by trade or private business of occupation and following by being  general employee 35.7 %. A most of them on 50.8 % had income less than 5,000 baht/ month. For marital status, it was found that most of them on 49.2% was married, 34.9% of them was widows/abandoned/separated and 15.6 % was singles, and 82.7% was living in own home. 

            2. The Level of the truth of suffering of the Aging was fair, such as Physical condition deteriorates, mental health is not peacefull, worrying about family and grandchildren, being Unable to work normally and losing income, being unable go anywhere.

            3. Personal growth level of the Aging was fair. Considering in three components, kalyanajana was good, Kalyanamitta was fair and aging Buddhist Model was good.  

            4. Personal Growth related with sex, income and marital status, at the statistical significance level .05. As for the age range, occupation, living with family members and own home was no related.

            5. This research found that sex, income, marital status, and the suffering level were influenced to Personal Growth, at the statistical significance level .05, but did not find that all 4 variables had a Covariance that affected the personal growth.

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            Based on this Research, it was suggestion that Wat Chaichimplee community, should have "Rattannu (beautiful aging)” clinic, according to Buddhist counseling Psychology to give service to the Aging every Buddhist day as a source of study and Model of exchange learning for developing life quality of the Aging in the age of Thailand 4.0.  

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