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By: Saanu

Saanu — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:04:33 +0000

Thank you Dasho for a thought provoking article. I was in Samsoe a big Island in Denmark, a year ago. Today that Island is self reliant with its own organic agriculture farming, fishing, power generation from wind, and has its own mayor. People are not rich there but happy. They share and care for each other.

A man by name of Søren Hermansen told me that a young Prince of Bhutan visited this Island and took refuse in his house back in early 1970s (could have been 1971). The purpose of the visit of the Prince he told me was to find out the different development models in the world so that he could bring happiness to his people back home.

What the Forth King propounded on, ‘GNH is more important than GNP’ did not just come at the asking of some journalist in India. It was a deep search His Majesty made as a young prince. His returning in 1975 (as one of the researcher wrote – is it 1979?) via India after NAM was the opportune time to speak out to the world his deep search and what He found was most important model for development. A model that is completely humanity centered (where nature, tradition/ culture live together with compassion, sharing, caring for each other). He knew ultimately the goal of every human being is happiness and the development model must address this – creating conditions for His people in Bhutan to practice their own deep and complete containment.

This should be another angle to look into the birth of GNH. I would not agree that it is based on Buddhist values – happiness is in any religion. Recently, I read in a corner of Melbourne Street – ” we are not human in search of spiritualism, but we are spiritual being in search of humanity” – I think the consumerism has taken toll on values of humanity, and the GNH must and will address this may be by another two generations if it is not too late for our mother earth. People have become reflective on the pattern of their own values of life and living – the change is coming and may GNH be the catalyst to bring the change sooner than late.
Tashi Delek for the New Development Paradigm Conference – I am also participating but as an observer

By: target

target — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:40:04 +0000

GNH is recent hypothesis developed and became popular after Bhutan became democracy. Earlier GNH philosophy is very simple, no meditation or nine domine etc.
But now, it has became so complex idea or philosophy. At present scenario it has became showcase to world. but i think is not time for Bhutan to publicize philosophy and proudly say that we must do these and that to bring world happiness, because we ourselves struggles to achieve basic happiness.
Bhutan need to go miles ahead, just simple example about our own economy condition, we are fully depending on other countries, we can’t produce even sufficient vegetable in the market , forget about the others things.
we ourselves is not fully fledged economy, why should we need to show case such philosophy to outside world.
first make economically independent and self sufficient, then improve our own national power, strength and livelihood of the people. make every citizen happy by solving their minor problems.
Example; like many people faced census problem, land problem etc
it is not time for Bhutan to become master of GNH, let us keep philosophy in mind and make ourselves independent, self sufficient and reliable, then demonstrate to the world.

By: XXX

XXX — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:00:47 +0000

Shocking things to be noted is all most all the author on Bhutan GNH are non nationals. What does this indicate? Do we lack Bhutanese intellectuals to develop literature on GNH? We have around 15000+ Master Degree holders and few countable PhDs, why they are not interested to contribute some to GNH.

The biggest and greatest flaws is what if we can’t preach or practice our own concept of GNH. Because we also now aspire like any other developing countries to economically prosper. If we want to achieve some in the field of economic, there is no other way than to being materialistic and aim to consume more. Simply preaching the concept will not help

By: PemaLotus

PemaLotus — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:46:49 +0000

A thoroughly analyzed and well-written article. It gave me a complete picture of where GNH comes from and where it now stands for Bhutan and the world.

I do agree with the author that this profound thought does need to be shared, experienced and further developed with the rest of the world, where materialism is slowly breaking down societies and wearing down the spirit. Despite an overabundance of wealth, people in the West are not happy and realizing that there needs to be another paradigm/way of thinking.

However, I do feel that while sharing GNH, we must also be able to practice it here on our own soil.And how do we do that, while still uplifting out people out of material poverty? Can we practice GNH while still functioning in a Capitalistic paradigm? Or do we change the paradigm completely? And what would that new paradigm look like?

Thank you la for this thought-provoking piece.

By: Simpson

Simpson — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:00:16 +0000

It is simply matter of to what extend we should wonder, perplex and rage when senior citizens (so-called GNH experts) of Bhutan interpret concept of GNH in 1001 ways. They just blame innocent people for having misunderstood the concept of GNH, without realizing the origin of such misconception. Today, secretary of MOIC has something to say about the GNH, and tomorrow it is definite that another senior citizen would say his/her something different. There is no way that rest of the people will have concrete meaning of GNH in them.

I am a Bhutanese citizen. I feel no shame to declare that I know nothing about the GNH. Now I am proud of someone who had propelled GNH even to the farthest and renowned organization like the UNO. However, I am wondering why there is a question of framing a new developmental paradigm. I can understand that some lapses exist in the present paradigm that does not go well in some corner of the globe (???could be in Bhutan). That is true! Errors are discovered only after presentations in meetings and seminars. Changes will be there. Now the question is, “why there are about 60 great philosophers, economists and scientists involved in drafting the new paradigm when Bhutan was identified as origin of GNH? ” “Where have our so called GNH experts of Bhutan gone?” “Who organizes GNH conferences for civil servants in Bhutan?” It really does not look like those people have fair idea of what GNH is.

I have a feeling that these folk of experts will definitely shape the GNH into everybody’s teddy, but I am scared that true concept of GNH will be further misinterpreted. I don’t think our prime minister as chairperson can debate the intellectual power of these experts and hold all rights of dos and don’ts. Very soon, Bhutan will start hiring people from foreign land to teach GNH to our citizens. That will be awesome. Cheers.