THE THIRD UNIVERSALISM OF THE GREAT WAY
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HUỆ KHẢI
(Dũ Lan LÊ ANH DŨNG)
THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF CAODAISTS
First
edition
HỒNG
ĐỨC publishing house
Hà Nội 2017
Issue No 111.1 by the Programme of
Joining Hands
for Free Caodai Publications - NOT FOR SALE
CONTENTS
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CAODAISTS
FROM HEART TO HEART
SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF CAODAISTS
1. Openness
1.1. Geographical feature
1.2. Multi-cultural feature
1.3. Multi-belief feature
1.4. Policies of Caodaism
1.5. Constructive effect of openness
2. Enthusiasm
*
Constructive effect of enthusiasm
3. Optimistic patience
* Constructive effect of optimistic patience
4. Democracy or equality
* Constructive effect of democracy or equality
5. Romantic characteristic
* Constructive effect of
romantic characteristic
THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF CAODAISTS
AS VIEWED
FROM THE VIETNAMESE PSYCHOLOGY
1. Community psychology
2. Factionalism, localism, separatism, and partialism
3. Respect for family sentiments, regarding the family as
the base and the village as the extended family
4. Fondness for festivals, through which socialising with
people in the same village or from different ones
5. Fondness for harmony and negotiation rather than
struggle
6. Fondness for living in simplicity and thriftiness
PLATES 1-4
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Front cover photo: Caodaists at
the 2012 God’s Anniversary at the Tây Ninh Holy See. (http://caodai.com.vn)
Ó 2017 All rights reserved
Huệ Khải
(Dũ Lan Lê Anh Dũng)
*
FROM HEART TO HEART
The psychology of Caodaists
is mental characteristics or attitude of God’s disciples, who dress in white.
Their psychology affects their behaviour, cognition, and emotion. Understanding
their psychology helps to perceive Caodai religion as an active entity with its
historical ups and downs.
The two essays included in
this booklet are certainly not a professional survey of the psychology of
Caodaists. This is just a modest contribution to gradually shaping a series of
interdisciplinary essays which might be expediently used as references,
especially when the Caodai Missionary Holy Assembly’s Academy has already been
established in Đà Nẵng city and it is attempting to introduce some specific
subjects such as the Caodai philosophy, English for Caodai studies, etc. while
the Caodai literature on these academic realms still seems to be too meagre.
I am so grateful to my highly
respectable senior teaching colleague Tú Đoàn for his proofreading my English
manuscript and contributing lots of worthwhile adjustments.
And here again, but never
enough, I sincerely express my deep appreciation and gratitude to all of my noble
and generous coreligionists, who have strongly, unceasingly, and
wholeheartedly supported the Programme of Joining Hands for Free Caodai
Publications, the journey I have been through since mid-2008.
I beg Master’s great favour
to be bestowed upon my benefactors, their ancestors and relatives as well.
Namo Caodai the Immortal Mahabodhisattva
Mahasattva.
HUỆ
KHẢI
Late September 2017
