At the
UN and other places, it has been proposed that our life be measured not by an economic
index such as the GDP, which increases even with pollution and war, but by an ecological
index such as the GHI (General Happiness Index). "Happiness consists in
contentment." With limitless craving, one can never become content. Limited
needs can be satisfied by a safe, simple, sustainable system, saving all (5 Ss).
Pursuing
limited matter and power in the artificial pyramidal system of civilization (=
urbanization) inevitably makes us compete and create conflict. Cultivating
limitless capabilities in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness of the natural
cyclical system of culture lets us freely become content, confident, and
completely happy, as religious leaders have exemplified with their lives.
4. Economy
in the ethic
All
universal religions have been advising that the separated self (sinfulness) be
reunited (= religion: Latin religare)
with holiness (wholesome whole: interdependent, integral ecological life
system). "The Declaration toward a Global Ethic" by the Parliament of the World's
Religions, issued in Chicago in 1993, set out basic principles to be observed
by all to have a wholly wholesome world in this perspective.
It declares
that there can be no new global order without a new global ethic, and it proclaims
the universal fundamental truth that all beings exist in interdependence,
interrelation, and relativity. Thus all beings are related and relative, no single
one is alienated or absolute. Thus all humans must be treated equally and humanely.
It prescribes four irrevocable directives as follows:
1.
Commitment
to a Culture of Nonviolence and Respect for Life
2.
Commitment
to a Culture of Solidarity and a Just Economic Order
3.
Commitment
to a Culture of Tolerance and a Life of Truthfulness
4.
Commitment
to a Culture of Equal Rights and Partnership between Men and Women
These
may be put into five Ls for facilitating our memory and mindfulness of these
principles, including the universal law of dependent origination that all
beings or phenomena are dependently originated on causes and conditions, just as
modern sciences are based on fundamental laws of causality (the corresponding
global system principles are next to the corresponding principles of global
ethic):
Global ethic (5Ls) Global system (5Ss)
1.
Law Systemic
2.
Life Sustainable
3.
Love Saving
4.
Lielessness Safe
5.
Liberation Simple
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