I have some suggestions here:

For big scale: I recommend to the government to provide funding 1) for research into the Buddha's teachings, which are about mind (like this), the truth about ending all sufferings permanently, etc. and 2) to spread what is found to everyone to have more understanding of what the Buddha taught around 2,500 years ago. The Buddha's discovery is the greatest discovery of mankind. It's for all human beings, not for any specific religion. (It made me think again that we should not think of Buddhism as a religion. It's just the greatest discovery for all beings by a man, a human being like you.)

In detail, for examples: Use your intelligent people from your existing organization like NASA or Pentagon to do the research I mentioned above. It can start from a small project with a small fund of 1% of total fund the organization receives. And when your own intelligent people find that it's very interesting as I or some group of people claimed, then put more fund to the project and more people, more technology, etc. to do anything like proving what the Buddha taught is the way of ending all sufferings permanently, it's not a made up story or a fiction.

We have Theravada Buddhist scriptures and call collections of Theravada Buddhist scriptures that Tipitaka. It's in Pali language originally. The Pali Tipitaka in Thai script contains 45 volumes; 22,379 pages; 84,000 sections of teaching. It's really HUGE, especially compare with Bible. The voluminous Tipitaka is estimated to be about eleven times the size of the Bible. The collection of the Buddha's teachings is mainly categorized by the length of the Buddha's teachings.
It should have better ways to categorize the teachings that will help people more efficiently. (We have Buddhist texts from other sources too, not only Theravada. However, Theravada texts are widely considered as the most complete and valid version of the Buddha's teaching.)
Your intelligent people can create the most inclusive computer database of the Buddha's teaching that can be searched from different angles. For examples, by questions: if someone want to know how many kinds of meditation that the Buddha taught, what those meditation are in detail, what kind of meditation that fit my personality, what the Buddha's taught most often, what the Buddha taught about the universe, or the examples of real people getting enlightenment, the computer can generate lists, which help that person save a lot of time, don't have to find answers by reading the huge texts himself/herself and maybe even that the person can't get the answer.
Also, your scientists should be able to study Arahant, one who has reached total liberation/one who has been totally transformed. Scientists should find something that will be benefit to mankind from the perfect human being.
We are very lucky to still be able to find what the Buddha taught 2500 years ago and Arahants still exist. We should hurry to do something before we can't find the Buddha's teaching and no Arahant in this world.

After that is to spread out the Buddha's teaching:
Your professional people can design campaigns to be launched through media such campaigns as "Meditation: The gift from nature truly", or "Go for Enlightenment", or "Let start changing the future from yourself". Put the Buddha's teaching in school's curriculum, issue a law so that people have longer weekend (start with one more holiday in each month) to have time to look into one own inside what the true cause of all sufferings and to practice Dhamma, which needs high effort, create television series about the ultimate truth, Enlightenment, wisdom, Meditation, compassion, or various important teachings leading to truth and peace, provide places that people can go to learn and do meditation such as in library, stop TV broadcasting between 6-7:30 pm. because we really need to reduce the amount of delusion; this will help improve relationship in family too because it will stop media from stealing the priceless time from our families, etc.

The government will be the organization that has 2 main things to do for their people:
1) Help solve problems of people in the country as the government is doing now.
2) Provide tools or anything that will help people to help themselves reach enlightenment to end all suffering permanently. Because the ultimate solution must start from people individually.
If the government can do this, it will be the first government in history of mankind!

[Another suggestion from me, the government need to solve problem sincerely. If it has to make things complicated, let it be, if it needs to be. Don't try to ignore problems.
For example, Internet. I heard some people learn making bomb from Internet or girls ran away to strangers whom they knew from Internet, and much more... , including bad pornography (like children, incest, rape, ...) How can the government let this happen (again and again)? There is no control (or there is?) Gov. need to set up an agency to take care negative sides of this new technology. Don't let those big Internet related companies lure people and make a lot of money by keep showing only good sides all over media. Gov. can take money from those companies by use special taxes. The more Internet-related cases happen in our country, the more taxes those companies have to pay to the agency to do whatever is necessary. Gov. need to issue more laws/Bills related to each case happening in order not to happen again.
Another idea, now we have to pay around $20 monthly to use Internet. For this prize, the Internet should have only nice, beautiful, useful, and peaceful things and clean entertainment. If anyone want to be able to access to something more exciting/violence that can cause danger to our society, they may be able to have it but they have to pay more (may be $50 monthly) and need to be registered for each category. So when there is a crime, the police can focus more on those people who have access to those related topics. The agency I mentioned above will have many many things to do to deal with the new technology.

As I said, if it's complicated, let it be, if it needs to be. Or else we will be like a spider trapped by its own web. In fact, this is what we are now.
Do this for people who still attach to delusion. When they study the Buddha's teachings more and practice more, they will gradually detach from their insatiable craving, hatred, and delusion. Finally and hopefully, they will get enlightenment.
Maybe we need to establish a testing area/community. Some people, when they see the good results of the testing society, they will come to join, some people who don't like it, just leave them. They know the time for what they are supposed to do by themselves.]

For small scale: Individually try to slow down keeping searching happiness from outside or from objects (not too much materialism, it's endless, DON'T YOU SEE IT? some words from the Buddha 2500 years ago) and look into ourselves, practicing meditation, understand the truths that you can find from the Buddha's teaching or from your own wisdom. Try to avoid being under delusion that is around you, especially in media.

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