Sarvodaya

She was a-- She studied philosophy, Western philosophy, systems theory, and someone who studies, uh, general systems theory and then begins understanding the teachings of dependent arising in Buddhism, sees such a tremendous overlap with them.

And she was a wonderful thinker, philosopher, kind of took that and worked it and developed it, and was very, very influenced by social, um, action movement in Sri Lanka that was called Sarvodaya.

Uh, daya here means something like compassion or love or generosity or all of the above.

And sarva means all, so, uh, compassion for all.

And a great leader emerged, A. T. Ariyaratne.

And he had a, uh, a trust in what's called Sarvodaya, which means everyone waking up together, that it was possible.

And this is a vision he had after 26 years of, of civil war, that the different sides could get together to serve the wellbeing of all, and he had a 500-year peace plan.

This is a visionary plan.