Teaching #9: Passing the Test of Wealth: A Challenge for Our Time

Core Teaching #9: Passing the Test of Wealth

The challenge that wealth-driven over-consumption poses is of both a spiritual and physical nature. The spiritual challenge is to overcome wealth's pull towards self-gratification and a sense of entitlement,or be overcome by it. The physical challenge manifests in environmental problems like species loss and pollution.


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