Chapter III:  Our Only Choice: An Economy of Spirituality for a Bright Tomorrow

Section 1:  What is an economy of spirituality?

I want to propose clearly a bright tomorrow for all humanity, which neither relies on the natural resources nor the economic activities and incomes from economic growth, but rather it is the economic activities and incomes from spiritual growth. Spiritual growth is exploring valuable spiritual ore. As long as people are born, their spirituality needs to be developed. Such development does not pollute the earth, but only purifies the human heart, restoring it to its source! Not only is spiritual growth the best way to save the Earth, it can also cleanse the human spirit for the purpose of realizing ultimate goodness. In so doing, it can also promote interpersonal and ethnic group relationships so that the various tribes may preserve their respective characteristics and mutually accommodate one another despite their differences. More importantly, it does not harm Mother Nature but rather promotes the continued, natural, balanced existence of the Earth!

In order to resolve the deep level issues underlying the accomplice structure, we propose economy of spirituality. Economics is a subject reek of the odour of money, especially when it comes to raising the devilish economic growth; how can it unify with spirituality? Our views are as follows: in maintaining the supply of material wealth, we need only to apply existing technologies to make goods available to everyone, and to use man-power and manual means to maintain man's basic living standards, and in so doing extinguishes the differences between the developed and under-developed, and restore all living things to a peaceful, stable, and harmonious world. This is to minimize material economic growth and focus and redirect man's energy and talents to developing his spirituality and the humanities.

Such spiritual growth and development activities are based on human nature, humanities, humanism, and human values, and not on external material wealth and money. Enjoyment based on spending material wealth and money is massive consumption of Earth’s resources, but enjoyment based on humanism and human nature is a form of spiritual existence of eternal warmth and feeling, which will not vanish because we enjoy it! Therefore, we may infinitely indulge in spiritual growth and development, and infinitely roam in the spiritual world without causing pollution, depletion and harm to the Earth! Pollution of the human mind might be inevitable but comparatively to a smaller extent than today’s devastation and pollution of human nature! This is an inevitable phenomenon of the law of averages operating in man’s society.

One point we must clarify is that all ethnic groups are born equal, all possess their own characteristics, and all may receive spiritual growth and development! Although in their development there may be cultural differences or contradictions, all these are cultural manifestations arising from their spirituality, and mutual communication and co-existence in peace are precisely the aim of spiritual growth. Therefore there is no dominant or mainstream civilization in spiritual growth and development, but rather a harmonious, accommodating, co-existence despite cultural differences, a bright cultural field where human nature, humanism, and human values become the prime guiding principles instead of external targets such as building up material wealth and money.