Gross National Happiness

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A Good Dog Can Bring Happiness to Your Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An handful of scholars, idealists, politicians, spiritually minded and visionary people are in the pass of creating the forthcoming scale to measure the way of tomorrow life, i.e. the way of life and the wealth of our children and grand children. Those pioneers have attempted an assembly in New York the 1st and 2nd of April. Here below is the report of thoughts inspired by this meeting to one of its participant, who is also an actor of this coming revolution in the economic metrics:

http://havinhtho.blogspot.fr/2012/04/looking-back-at-new-york-meetings-on.html

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Gross National Happiness

Happiness is a warm gun (The Beatles)

My cousin went to New York (a bad place for French CEO the last twelve months) to participate to the world GNH congress at the UN.
His Buddhist philosophy protected him against any bad Karma because he came back safe. Here below is the manuscript of his lecture showing the possibilities of teaching what happiness proceeds from and a few pictures and links presenting the GNH concept.

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Manuscript : Ha Vinh Tho

More content about the Bhutan policy available here:

http://www.gnhcentrebhutan.org/

http://www.2apr.gov.bt/

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