Iso K.Mahidol University2023-06-182023-06-182022-01-01Studia Orientalia Slovaca Vol.21 No.1 (2022) , 83-10113363786https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/83475Human individuals in Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid modernity are insecure with overloaded choices of identities and responsibilities: they are surrounded by uncertainties and strangers and shift their focus to self-fulfillment. Also, human bonds become weak due to communication technology. Nevertheless, Bauman sees a chance of ethics over uncertainty, and yet, it has to be in the immediacy of face-to-face interaction. This immediacy allows expressions of life such as trust to arise and cultivates a moral individual to fulfill ethical demands. This work assumes a shift to the liquid modernity of Thailand by sharing Bauman’s idea of ethical values derived from immediacy interaction. It proposes Theravāda Buddhist wise reflection, or yonisomanasikāra, to explain a moment when individuals immediately interact and contemplate their cognition and reaction activities with equanimity. In this way, individuals return to the compassion stage of mind, fulfilling a demand to care for others.Arts and HumanitiesArticleSCOPUS2-s2.0-85134638160