Saamdu ChetriDr. Saamdu Chetri was born in a rural Bhutan and has a PhD in commerce. After working in private and development sectors for 25 years, and Cabinet of the PM for five years, he then founded the Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan and headed for five years. He has been teaching, consulting and speaking at various international and national occasions on mindfulness and Happiness, among others, in India, Czech, USA, Singapore, UK (also at the parliament), Hong Kong, Philippines, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, and travelled in several other countries.
He is a strong supporter of equality and empowerment. He helped the national projects formulation in the country through Swiss support in training, infrastructure, services and other practices in spiritual practices. He had interviews with BBC, ABC, ABS-CBN, CNN, and various other TVs including interviews in podcasts. There are two books to his credit, including Money and Microenterprises in Bhutan: The Land of Zorig Chug Sum Thirteen Arts and Crafts and several contributions for many books. |
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Happiness is within. We experience the truth of this when we are totally no longer attached to greed, aversion or delusion. We experience happiness in relation to the self with self, self with others and self with nature. These are the three divides that make us suffer on this planet. We bring sufferance to the Mother Earth because of these divides. Today, we are walking with our open eyes to the cliff. We need to bring transformation within each one of us.
We must connect with ourselves. We live in the past and future and not in the present moment. We connect ourselves through spirituality, becoming more and more compassionate and serving others.
We must connected with other human beings. Today we do not trust our community, and there is no feeling of security and belongingness. In fact, many of us do not know our neighbors. We live in a paradoxical world. We have a huge divide between the rich and the poor. We have a huge divide between the rich and the poor - about 20% of the global population consume 77% of global production, and on the other end, 20% of global population subsist on only 2% of the global production. We connect with others by forming loving bonds which stand on four pillars: relationship, integrity, compassion and humanity (RICH) with a roof of the trust.
We must connect with nature. In truth, we are nature. Any part of the nature that we destroy, we slowly kill ourselves. We consist of 75% water and 25% genes from plants, animals and minerals that are on the planet. Knowingly, we are destroying the planet with our greed. For example, we do not need meat to live. Although the oil peak was reached between 2010 and 2014. Global warming is already triggered. We know that within another 70 to 100 years, the geography of the world will change because many areas will be under water, rendering about 200 million people homeless. Climate change is certainly becoming a big challenge for all sentient beings. We connect with nature first by understanding and experiencing ourselves as nature.
We must connect with ourselves. We live in the past and future and not in the present moment. We connect ourselves through spirituality, becoming more and more compassionate and serving others.
We must connected with other human beings. Today we do not trust our community, and there is no feeling of security and belongingness. In fact, many of us do not know our neighbors. We live in a paradoxical world. We have a huge divide between the rich and the poor. We have a huge divide between the rich and the poor - about 20% of the global population consume 77% of global production, and on the other end, 20% of global population subsist on only 2% of the global production. We connect with others by forming loving bonds which stand on four pillars: relationship, integrity, compassion and humanity (RICH) with a roof of the trust.
We must connect with nature. In truth, we are nature. Any part of the nature that we destroy, we slowly kill ourselves. We consist of 75% water and 25% genes from plants, animals and minerals that are on the planet. Knowingly, we are destroying the planet with our greed. For example, we do not need meat to live. Although the oil peak was reached between 2010 and 2014. Global warming is already triggered. We know that within another 70 to 100 years, the geography of the world will change because many areas will be under water, rendering about 200 million people homeless. Climate change is certainly becoming a big challenge for all sentient beings. We connect with nature first by understanding and experiencing ourselves as nature.
