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BASIC HUMAN ASPIRATIONS AND a PROGRAM FOR FULFILLING IT. By Dendup Wangmo ACC. Basic Human Aspirations. What is it that all human beings basically want? Continuous Happiness and Prosperity Want happiness and Prosperity in continuity, not in intervals.
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BASIC HUMAN ASPIRATIONS AND a PROGRAM FOR FULFILLING IT. By Dendup Wangmo ACC
Basic Human Aspirations • What is it that all human beings basically want? • Continuous Happiness and Prosperity • Want happiness and Prosperity in continuity, not in intervals. • Do not want unhappiness even for a moment.
Happiness and Prosperity • PROSPERITY • Feeling of having or making available more than required physical facilities. • To ascertain Prosperity, two things are essential • Correct assessment of need for physical facilities; • Competence of making available more than required physical facilities. • Understand the difference between Prosperity and Wealth, where • Wealth- physical thing. Having money, or having lots of physical facilities, or both. • Prosperity- feeling of having more than required physical facilities, its not just physical facilities.
Prevailing Notions of Happiness and Prosperity RIGHT UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIP PHYSICAL FACILITY Maximizing accumulation and consumption DEPRIVATION
Prevailing Notions of Happiness and Prosperity • Consequences: • At the individual level- rising problems of depressions, loneliness,stress,insecurity,etc. • At the level of family- mistrust, conflict between older and younger generations,divorce,etc. • At the level of Society- growing incidences of terrorism, wars between nations, racial and ethnic struggle, etc. • At the level of Nature- global warming, resource depletion, deforestation, etc.
Basic Requirement for Fulfillment of Human Aspirations RIGHT UNDERSTANDING For animals: necessary & complete PHYSICAL FACILITY RELATIONSHIP Mutual Fulfillment For human beings: necessary but not complete Mutual Happiness Mutual Prosperity
Program for fulfilling Basic Human Aspirations • Understand and live in Harmony at All Level of Livings: • Living in Myself • Living in Family • Living in Society • Living in Nature/Existence
Human and Animal Consciousness Human Consciousness RIGHT UNDERSTANDING Transformation RELATIONSHIP PHYSICAL FACILITY Animal Consciousness