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Thursday
May032007

Gross National Happiness

Greetings,

You will happy to know Bhutan has a gross national happiness (GNH) index. Material well being is one component.

"That doesn't ensure you are at peace with your environment and in harmony with each other," said Kimjie Dorjing, minister of Well Being.

On the red path music scene following new directions along delicious muddy trails to the south; villages and rice paddies are filled with labor's love. The dirt way offers views of old brick factories, rolling green hills, western mountains, rivers, lakes, and 'Water Music.'

This is where you discover a small tributary rushing down from hills and, like visiting the Rio in southern Spain, you begin cleaning out winter's dead debris, clearing out a channel as the flow courses through leaves, around stones, dancing down twisted delicately carved erosions toward distant fields filled with rice, corn, and cabbage greens deep inside old forested ferns, sheltered large bamboo groves with the eco-system encapsulated by bird songs and pine scent.

You witness the orange sun going home as a full moon rises over an eastern mountain monastery dreaming starlight.

Peace.

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