You
start with freedom from thirst, hunger, disease, the basic freedoms
that the state has to help its citizens achieve. Then you go beyond that
to social freedom, from discrimination, inequality, from crime, and
lawlessness, and insecurity, which the state also has to provide. Then
ultimately you find further up the ladder political freedom, the freedom
from authority and tyranny. And then Buddhism brings you even past
that, to seek freedom from internal bondage.
—Matthieu Ricard, "Bhutan on the Brink"
—Matthieu Ricard, "Bhutan on the Brink"
