Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop

Money does not buy  happiness

As Ricard Layard, of the London school of Economics, states: ” We have more food, more clothes, more cars, bigger houses, more central heating, more foreign holidays, a shorter working week, nice work and above all, better health. Yet we are not happier…..If we want people to be happier, we really h ave to know what conditions generate happiness and how cultivate them.”

Bhutan’s “Gross National Happiness” is not a concept but a way of Life

The advent of modernity hasn’t been without its challenges, either. Technology has been a disruption. With Television arriving in the 1990s (See wrestle mania) and a  few of Bhutan’s sixty or so different dialects from fragmented communities starting to die out in favour of english or Dzongkha ( The National Language).

A man of tao has no choice he lives in choicelessness

You can interpret that this cloud is moving towards the north because it has a choice, it has chosen to move north. But you are wrong; the cloud has no choice. He is not bound to go anywhere, he has no destiny. He is simply moving because the whole nature is going that way.