The way to achieve personal happiness while helping society move in the right direction is to forget oneself and consider the good of the entire social body, always recognizing the rights of one’s fellows and maintaining a lofty, objective general outlook. Although this ideal stance is not easy to adopt or uphold, bearing it constantly in mind and moving steadily forward are of the greatest importance. This is the way of true democracy, a system that finds its optimum expression and its foundation in the law of dependent origination and the limitless interrelation of all beings everywhere.
Basic Buddhist Concepts