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from wasteful and excessive consumption to control of wants.
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Ethical orientation to livelihood, business and occupations.
Seeking and helping others through training for the right vocations. Opportunities need to be created to enable people to chose more peaceful and yet remunerative vocations and discard violent or exploitative pursuits.
Constituent elements of training for Non-Violence
Change of Heart: Controlling anger, ego, fear, greed, hate, hostility, passion and intolerance.
Attitudina! Change: Realizing the futility of one-sided imposition of ideas on others; giving up and shunning fundamentalist approach; shunning resort to violent conflicts and wars; working for farewell to hate, inequality and exploitation; tackling growing terrorism by strengthening courage of non-violence; advocating interdependent and peaceful co-existence and cooperation; not disturbing the ecological balance and harmony with nature and other life forms.
Transition towards Non-violent Life Style: Promote faith in ethical values in order to eliminate corruption, pollution, economic exploitation, wasteful and excessive consumption, violence and cruelty-oriented abuse of resources as well as entertainment mediums, social and economic disparities. This needs to be done with a longterm vision and commitment so that tendency or temptation to commit crimes in negated.
Ethical Orientation to Livelihood: Training would need to focus on removing exploitative sources of livelihood; on redressing proportionate imbalance between labour and its
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