November 19, 2024

How can I help people suffering from materialism?

12 minutes

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Southdale Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Sep 12, 2018)

🔹Question: I have studied a lot of different philosophical spiritual

practices and religions. I come to the conclusion that a lot of our sufferings

are from fixation on materialism from my understanding. Attachment to things,

attachment to homes, attachment to people, attachment to money. At an early age

I realized there was more to this world than what you can feel, the tangible,

the material. I always thought I was a seeker of something beyond the material

world. When I see people suffering because of materialism, I don’t know how to

help them. I don’t know how to help them in their suffering of attachment and

seeking materialism, money, greed. I see it in my way coming and I see them

suffering because of it. It;e not to say that you don’t need money or things.

Obviously everyone needs money and things. That’s not point. I am just

wondering how one deals with being surrounded by people that you see them

suffering and they cause suffering to others with their attachment to things,

money, materialism and creating suffering in the process of that.

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