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Today, we are learning from Della Z Duncan. Della guides us upstream to the root causes of the challenges of our time to empower us to realize and re-member who we are and how we can contribute. As a Renegade Economist, plants in her regenerative livelihood garden include hosting the Upstream Podcast challenging mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations, supporting individuals as a Right Livelihood Coach, co-directing the California Doughnut Economics Coalition which just released a Doughnut Snapshot of the state of California, helping transition businesses and organizations to post-capitalism, and teaching and facilitating courses and retreats on Buddhist Economics, the Work that Reconnects, and Regenerative Economics. Della is also the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra's Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, and a Senior Lecturer of Renegade Economics and Regenerative Livelihoods at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Santa Cruz Permaculture, Vital Cycles Permaculture, and Gaia Education. Let's get started... In this conversation with Della Duncan, I learned: 00:00 Intro 02:55 The current plants in her regenerative livelihood garden of Della. - One who supports re-membering. 04:30 Our parenting and caretaking can be part of the offerings of our time. 06:05 Renegate economist is to challenge and unlearn the paradigms and values that underpin mainstream economic thinking. 08:20 What are your indicators for success, what are your metrics? 09:20 What is truly important to you and to us? 10:50 We have high levels of inequality and it is growing. Many people don't have the ability to be happy, healthy, and well. 13:25 A beautiful vision for a post-profit world. 14:50 What do you want your entrepreneurship to serve, what cause or issue? 15:15 Entrepreneurship can be a force for good. 15:45 You find your enoughness and after that, where do you want your profit to go? 20:45 Kicked off the mindfulness cushion into a path of engaged activism. 21:35 Stumbling onto Buddhist economics, the work of E.F. Schumacher, and Schumacher College. 25:50 Challenging the main mainstream economic thinking with initiatives like doughnut economics. 27:35 Bringing Doughnut Economics to live in California. 32:40 Instead of seeking balance, Della seeks balancing. 33:00 We are tentative about what we measure; what are my metrics of success? 34:40 Looking at some of your work as a hobby as a helpful reframe for balancing life. 36:00 Being led by inquiry is important for the podcast. 39:05 This is how they use the money from their Patreaons. 40:10 Learnings from the conversations about post-capitalism parenting. 45:05 A more equal world is better for everyone. 45:45 We get to a more equal world by paying people more equally. 47:20 Two great questions from the right livelihood coaching sessions: 1. What is the world's deepest hunger as it shows up for you? (What breaks your heart?) 2. How do we pair that with your deepest gladness? (What brings you joy? Sense of thriving?) 51:24 The practice of tithing - with the mindset of enoughness, what can you give away what you don't need? 52:20 Christianity has been supportive of capitalism, colonization, and harm to people on the planet. We can also find places where Christianity had been supportive of post-capitalist realities. 54:15 Spiritual traditions are unhelpful when they posit individual salvation and cosmic duality, and they are helpful when they posit collective liberation and cosmic unity. 58:00 What are your metrics? How are you measuring your life? The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner More about Della Duncan:
In this week's interview on the Mixtape with Scott, I had the pleasure of interviewing Clair Brown, a labor economist at the University of California - Berkeley. Dr. Brown's career has spanned several topics like discrimination, industrial economics, and climate. Dr. Brown's late career has made several turns into environmental economics, particularly climate, but also a re-envisioning of the field of economics with her book Buddhist Economics. Dr. Brown's work has always focused on issues around welfare that are often massaged out of her models, like meaning, community and fairness in labor markets. I thoroughly enjoyed our time together, and I hope you find it interesting too. Please remember to subscribe and share!Scott's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe
April Gargiulo, founder of the skin-care company Vintner's Daughter, closes the loop between winemaking, soil health and sustainable skincare, as she tells the story of the slow beauty company she created to reflect her desire for quality, love for the earth, and production with an old-world mindset. April works from the foundation that fewer and better products are the remedy to a market built for overconsumption, and approaches skincare with the attitude of a winemaker: focusing on whole plants, active ingredients, quality sourcing, and soil health, resulting in a product made to an exacting standard of quality. For April, slow living means leaning into terroir, the unique flavor of a place that it carries due to the composition of the soil in which things are grown. Her intentionality and desire to engage with the details of the making process fuel her ability to serve her specific community, just as creators would have done in the pre-industrial age. Topics Covered: Slow Beauty Winemaking Holistic Skincare Routine Soil Health and Terroir from a Skincare Perspective Creating Products with a “Fewer, Better” Mindset Conscious Consumption Resources Mentioned: https://spiritweaversgathering.com/ (Spirit Weavers Gathering) https://scienceandartofherbalism.com/ (Rosemary Gladstar) http://buddhisteconomics.net/ (Buddhist Economics) https://www.gargiulovineyards.com/ (Gargiulo Vineyards) Guest Info: Connect with April Gargiulo https://vintnersdaughter.com/ (Vintner's Daughter) Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vintnersdaughter/?hl=en (@vintnersdaughter) Follow Us: https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast (Our Website) @weareladyfarmer on https://www.instagram.com/thegooddirtph/ (Instagram) http://almanac.lady-farmer.com/ (The Lady Farmer ALMANAC) Original music by John Kingsley @jkingsley1026 Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well being.
Becoming an economist in the 1970s- for a woman, was a lonely road. When Clair Brown joined the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1974 alongside people like Nobel laureate George Akerlof, she was the only female faculty member. But thanks to Brown's prodding, the department hired more women and Berkeley has since become well known for its female economists. Brown has always seen the power of diversity in her work. In 2013 she helped create a new graduate program called Development Engineering that teams engineers with economists to develop technologies that benefit developing regions. Today, she's advocating for a new, more sustainable approach to economic thinking in her book, Buddhist Economics. Journalist, Rhoda Metcalfe spoke with Clair Brown for our special series on extraordinary Women in Economics. Transcript: https://bit.ly/388DzG3 Book: http://buddhisteconomics.net/
Della Duncan is a renegade economist, a teacher coach, and a leader in promoting alternative economics around the world. She hosts a great podcast called Upstream and is a senior fellow of Social and Economic Equity at III in the London School of Economics. Della is also deeply supportive of Fritjof Capra's Systems View of Life course and the Gross National Happiness perspective of economic development. She is also the founding member of Doughnut Economics California Coalition. https://www.upstreampodcast.org/ https://doughnuteconomics.org https://www.capracourse.net/ https://inglesidecommunitypower.com/ https://www.dellazduncan.com/ https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/cultivating-right-livelihood/
In this 21 minutes [yes, slightly long, apologies] episode, Peter and Tina explore the rich contribution of E. F. (Fritz) Schumacher, who wrote the seminal book Small Is Beautiful (1973). This book and Schumacher's thinking on small vs. gigantic, Buddhist Economics, and appropriate technology, pathed the way for what we now think of as the Community Economic Development (CED) Tradition. We invite community development workers to become economically literate and add CED to their social and justice efforts.
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Della Duncan is a Renegade Economist based in San Francisco. She teaches workshops and retreats about alternative economics around the world, supports individuals working to better align their values with their work as a Right Livelihood Coach, and offers consulting to organizations, businesses, and local governments contributing to equitable and sustainable economic systems change. Della is also the host of the Upstream Podcast challenging traditional economic thinking through documentaries and interviews. She's a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute in the London School of Economics, and she is also a Master Trainer of Gross National Happiness. In this episode, She discusses Eightfold noble Path, finding more moments of happiness, how to use her right livelihood concept to reduce suffering and harm in the world, 5Rhythms dance movement practice, How to use mindfulness to prevent sexual violence, and much more. If you are intrigued, keep listening while you are walking, driving, or anywhere you are. Please enjoy! Please visit https://nishantgarg.me/podcasts for more info. Follow Nishant: Friday Newsletter: https://garnishant-91f4a.gr8.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-garg-b7a20339/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nishant82638150 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NishantMindfulnessMatters/
Today we want to introduce you to our remarkable senior advisor Dr. Ernest C. H. NG, and his exceptional path in life. In his early career, Dr. Ernest C. H. NG was one of the top performers in the financial markets where he also functioned as the Vice President of Morgan Stanley Asia. After 15 years in the financial Industry, Ernest went back to university part-time to study and research Buddhist Philosophy and Buddhist Economics. His book „Introduction to Buddhist Economics“ is a pioneering effort to introduce Buddhist Economics systemically. Today Dr. Ernest C. H. NG is the Chief Executive Officer of a Buddhist NGO and a Buddhist scholar. He dedicated his life to developing the young generation and future leaders, serving as a mentor for various universities, and advising organizations such as the Sustainable Finance Initiative in Hong Kong. In our podcast conversation, Ernest tells how his interest in Buddhist Economics arose and combined classical economics with Buddhist values. Why he gave up his career in the financial industry, how companies can do good and well, and what his vision for the future of business looks like. So sit back, relax and enjoy a wonderful new episode on the Conscious Consulting Podcast. If you want to dive deeper into the field of Conscious Consulting visit ccg-group.eu, subscribe to our newsletter so we can stay connected and join our Community meetup Conscious Conversation here: ccg.podia.com
The Lindisfarne Tapes are selected recordings of presentations and conversations at the Lindisfarne Fellows' meetings. In March of 2013 William Thompson granted permission to the Schumacher Center for a New Economics to transfer the talks from the old reel-to-reel tapes to digital format so that they could be posted online and shared freely. In 2021, the Schumacher Center used the digital audio to create the Lindisfarne Tapes Podcast. Reposting should include acknowledgment of williamirwinthompson.org. Learn more about the Lindisfarne Tapes here.Schumacher delivered this lecture in 1974 at the Lindisfarne Summer Conference, "Planetary Culture and New Image of Humanity."
The Lindisfarne Tapes are selected recordings of presentations and conversations at the Lindisfarne Fellows' meetings. In March of 2013 William Thompson granted permission to the Schumacher Center for a New Economics to transfer the talks from the old reel-to-reel tapes to digital format so that they could be posted online and shared freely. In 2021, the Schumacher Center used the digital audio to create the Lindisfarne Tapes Podcast. Reposting should include acknowledgment of williamirwinthompson.org. Learn more about the Lindisfarne Tapes here.
Dr. Clair Brown joins us for these 2 episodes from 2016. Dr. Brown is the author of Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science. Dr. Brown is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of how economies function, including high-tech industries, development engineering, the standard of living, wage determination, poverty, and unemployment.
"Wir brauchen ein neues, erweitertes Bewusstsein, wenn wir die Welt verändern wollen." Darauf hat sich Julia Culen in ihrer Arbeit als Trusted Advisor für Führungskräfte spezialisiert. Ein Schwerpunkt ihrer Arbeit ist es Wirtschaft, moderne Wissenschaft und Weisheitstraditionen miteinander zu verbinden um so auf neue Möglichkeiten zu kommen. Um neue Möglichkeiten zu finden, muss man den bekannten Rahmen verlassen und sich in neue Sphären begeben. Julia beschäftigt sich in ihrer Arbeit intensiv mit Buddhist Economics, der östlichen Wirtschaftsphilosophie. Im Podcast-Interview haben Julia und ich darüber gesprochen, was die Hauptunterschiede von westlicher und östlicher Wirtschaft sind, welche die Grundprinzipien von Buddhist Economics sind und wir wir anfangen können, diese in uns zu verankern. Viel Freude bei diesem wundervollen Interview!
A bonus episode with extra material from last episode's wonderful conversation with Vaddhaka, author of ‘The Buddha On Wall Street'.In part 2 of our discussion about the contribution Buddhism may have to make to all matters economic, we turn to the post-pandemic realities now faced around the world. The times prompt a reconsideration of the “attention economy” and its relationship to social inequality when everyone's lives are much more centred on the web. And we explore the relationship between the “wellbeing economy” and ideas of economic growth; as well as whether the community-led origins of the UK ‘Welfare State' might serve as a model for the future.Some fundamental questions are asked and well met: What do we value as a society? What does human nature tend towards? What does the “common weal” look like after COVID-19? Finding throughout the conversation the opportunities for kindness in our dealings with each other – beyond economic and political positions.Featured this weekThe Buddha On Wall Street by Vaddhaka LinnListen to a mini-series of podcasts on The Buddha On Wall StreetUtopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman Humankind by Rutger Bregman***Check out our Dharma Toolkit space for details of all we have on offer to help you make it through the pandemic and stay inspired.Come meditate with us any week day!***Theme music by Ackport! Used with kind permission.Cover art, ‘Hold' by Nagasiddhi#coronavirus #Covid19 #crisis #pandemic #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Dharma #Triratna #community #sangha #economics #economy #money #democracy #Socialism #NeoLiberalism #wellbeing #kindness #Capitalism
We're back with the first episode in a two-part conversation about what Buddhism has to say to 21st C. economics in the wake of populist political tides, globalization and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.Vaddhaka is the author of The Buddha On Wall Street, a Buddhist critique of Neo-Liberal notions of capitalism. Expect a stirring, provocative discussion around the state of western democracies in relation to economics, and the hope offered by community-led responses to the despair felt by many around the world who feel left behind.How can Buddhism respond to inequality, the need for social justice, poverty and class differences? What does the history of "free-thinking British Socialism" have to tell us today? And how might we move towards an economics of wellbeing?Featured this weekThe Buddha On Wall Street by Vaddhaka LinnListen to a mini-series of podcasts on The Buddha On Wall StreetSmall Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher.Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus DeatonThe economic philosophy of John Maynard Keynes***Check out our Dharma Toolkit space for details of all we have on offer to help you make it through the weirdness and stay inspired.Come meditate with us any week day!***Theme music by Ackport! Used with kind permission.#coronavirus #Covid19 #crisis #pandemic #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Dharma #Triratna #community #sangha #economics #economy #money #democracy #Socialism #NeoLiberalism #wellbeing #kindness #Capitalism
A Policy Index to Create a Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Economy, and Buddhist Economics: an enlightened approach to the dismal science Prof. Clair Brown is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of inequality and sustainability. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science provides an economic framework that integrates global sustainability, shared prosperity, and care for the human spirit. Her research team created the Sustainable, Share-Prosperity Index (SSPI). Clair is a volunteer with 350 Bay Area Action, where she co-chairs the Legislative Committee to work on passing key climate justice bills in California. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/support
In this program, Susan Tchudi spoke with Dr. Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. The program is part of our series on Radical Change. Claire is an advocate of a Buddhist Economy, a holistic economic approach, where the economy delivers a high quality of life in a sustainable world. Buddhist economics integrates sustainability, equity, and compassion.She is the author of Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, published in 2017.
Christie* interviews friend and Dharmacharya sister Susmita Barua about her opening into Dharma and eventual exploration of Buddhist economics. Referenced are the Path factors of Wise View and Wise Livelihood, E. F. Schumacher who coined the term "Buddhist economics" in 1955, the debt economy, and the synchronicity of Andrew Yang. To get in touch with Susmita or follow her explorations, go to susmitabarua.com and/or facebook.com/mindful.economics We are always happy to answer general questions via the podcast or our website contact page, but if you are interested in individual Contemplative Spiritual Direction with Christie* (15 min sessions currently available at your own rate, as well as the usual hour or half hour), visit the Passati Counseling & Direction website. Midweek Meditation happens Wednesdays 1130am-12noon Central. Make sure you have your Zoom account and pick up the link to Midweek Meditation at deepsouthdharma.org or at passaticounseling.com Join Christie, Jaya, and the rest of the Oxford (MS) Practice Group in meeting Saturdays 10-11am CENTRAL time ONLINE for the time being. After you make sure you have your free Zoom account, pick up the Zoom link specific to the Oxford Practice Group Online at deepsouthdharma.org For information about upcoming retreats as it becomes available, as well as our weekly offerings and other events, visit the Deep South Dharma website and subscribe, or like the Deep South Dharma Facebook page.. *Christie Bates is a minister of the Embracing Simplicity Contemplative Order (ordained "Acharya Passatininna") and is co-founder and teacher of Deep South Dharma. Deep South Dharma has a weekly practice group in Oxford MS and stays connected with our extended sangha through this podcast and occasional online offerings --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deepsouthdharma/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deepsouthdharma/support
Our year long-series on practice continues and we stray further into the world of politics and economics with this episode's guest. Economics is a form of human practice of course, and not a solid, eternal fixed inevitability. Like politics, it's a topic often resisted by spiritual and religious folks. In a democracy, we would all do well to educate further on this topic, so why not combine a conversation on Buddhism and economics? That's just what we have done in this episode with Clair Brown, who is an economist at U.C. Berkeley. In this episode we discuss Buddhist Economics, the name of her book on the topic. Clair has been active in seeking to construct and teach alternatives to the free market, neo-liberal economic model we are still living under and Buddhism, along with the work of E.F. Schumacher, plays a role. Using real world evidence and data, she has been developing policies towards an economics more suited to our 21st century plight and a reduction of suffering globally. Clair has a dedicated website on the topic with a reading group section for those interested in working with her book. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our year long-series on practice continues and we stray further into the world of politics and economics with this episode's guest. Economics is a form of human practice of course, and not a solid, eternal fixed inevitability. Like politics, it's a topic often resisted by spiritual and religious folks. In a democracy, we would all do well to educate further on this topic, so why not combine a conversation on Buddhism and economics? That's just what we have done in this episode with Clair Brown, who is an economist at U.C. Berkley. In this episode we discuss Buddhist Economics, the name of her book on the topic. Clair has been active in seeking to construct and teach alternatives to the free market, neo-liberal economic model we are still living under and Buddhism, along with the work of E.F. Schumacher, plays a role. Using real world evidence and data, she has been developing policies towards an economics more suited to our 21st century plight and a reduction of suffering globally. Clair has a dedicated website on the topic with a reading group section for those interested in working with her book. https://buddhisteconomics.net/ Links Imperfect Buddha Site with Coaching info: https://imperfectbuddha.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imperfectbuddha Twitter: https://twitter.com/Imperfectbuddha
Neala Schleuning is the writer behind "Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation." The book has been a huge inspiration to us at Bank Job headquarters, and as its central theme it explores the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, and charts the destructive energy modernism brought to bear on meaning in art. 4-7 mins Dan and Neala first discuss Plato and Aristotle who put forward the idea that 'the good, the true and the beautiful' should sit right at the heart of aesthetics, in other words art should be 'meaningful'. Poets were banned under Plato as they stirred people up! Ethics is about guiding us collectively, modernism is about individualism, the romantic artist. Art becomes 'art for art's sake.'8-15 mins Their discussion then moves on to a very brief overview of the 20th century and the challenges to modernism - movements insisting on bringing politics back into the conversation. Neala says politics is ethics under another name. They then discuss the First World War, Dadism and Situationist International and the Lettrists, touching on Guy De Bord, who Neala thinks is one of the great lesser sung geniuses of the 20th century. The society of the Spectacle.16-20 mins - start to talk about Chris Marker, The Matrix and They Live, films which reveal the Spectacle as introduced by Neala in the last section.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaELooking 'beyond the Spectacle'. Neala talks about this as a 'control system'. Dan likens this to advertising, 'the production of desire' which connects to Neala's term 'capitalist aesthetics'. 21 -27 mins A brief chat about Schumacher - 'Small Is Beautiful' and the Buddhist Economics and what that is meant to be. Situationist International inspired 68 uprisings as well as groups like Adbusters. 'Another world is possible.'27-31 mins we discuss the new mass media - social media - and the politic art and memes that are shared.34-40 mins on optimism amid a world with Trump and Johnson. But is it a great time for progressives? We talk about the necessity of taking action and not just talking. "That's how you create another world, you actualise it, you don't wait for a great leader, you get together with other people."40-47 mins we begin to discuss a new book Neala is writing discussing the Anthropocene, human activity on the geological record, it's not theoretical. She's very interested in the 'dark side of the sublime' Timothy Martin and The Hyper Object. We wrap it up!
In episode 12, Aimee and Laura speak with UC Berkley Economics Professor Dr. Clair Brown about her book Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science. This conversation invites listeners of all backgrounds to imagine an ideal future that benefits all rather than a select few. More Info On Clair Brown and Buddhist Economics:Buddhist […]
What if the economy was aligned with the values of ancient spiritual teachings? A healthy living system will circulate goods and services to provide well-being for all people. Exchanges in a sacred marketplace will kindle the spiritual fire, creating greater joy and satisfaction. Through virtuous earning and spending, people will care for each other and […]
What is the anthropocene, and could it be anything other than a really bad news story for us humans that created it? This episode is a recording of a session from the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, featuring: *Clair Brown, economics professor at the University of California and author of Buddhist Economics - http://buddhisteconomics.net/about/ *Charles Massy, sheep farmer, academic and landscape manager and author of Call of the Reed Warbler -https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/07/18/93409/call-of-the-reed-warbler-charles-massy-uqp/ *Clive Hamilton, public ethics professor at Charles Sturt University, writer and author of Defiant Earth - http://clivehamilton.com/books/defiant-earth-the-fate-of-humans-in-the-anthropocene/ Follow host Graham Readfearn twitter.com/readfearn
There's a widespread sense that something remains broken in the global economy. Despite a comeback in official measures of economic performance, like GDP and the unemployment rate, there's a widespread sense of disillusionment and discontentment with the status quo. Clair Brown, an economics professor at UC Berkeley teaches a class on Buddhist Economics and has written a book on the subject. On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Brown argues that the application of Buddhist principles could help economists and policymakers focus on what will actually satisfy people, as opposed to material measures that leave them feeling cold and empty.
Ivan in conversation with Maitrisara, Visuddhimati, and Aryadhara about Vaddhaka's talk on Buddhism and Capitalism, which received a standing ovation this morning. Available soon on Free Buddhist Audio and The Buddhist Centre Online. http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/ https://thebuddhistcentre.com/internationalretreat #internationalretreat #economics #buddhisteconomics #capitalism
In today’s FBA Podcast, “All In This Together – Is It Time For a Buddhist Economics?” Kavyasiddhi delivers beautifully in this first of a series of public talks at Manchester Buddhist Centre entitled ‘Buddhism and the Big Question‘.
Transcript -- Dr Mike Lucas looks at the social implications of a new business model based on Buddhist economics.
Dr Mike Lucas looks at the social implications of a new business model based on Buddhist economics.