We've explored all the buckets to total well-being and to finish this week we explore something

that can be quite detrimental to our well-being. Materialism. materialism is frequently thought of as an addiction to matter which includes every sensory experience that we have,

whether it's addiction to food or addiction to sex or addiction to substance or addiction to sex or

to substance or addiction to power

or addiction to what can go wrong.

These are some of the addictions that human beings have including the addiction to melodrama.

So when we include all these addictions, addiction to security included, these can all fall under the heading of materialism

because we believe that security comes from things or we think that happiness comes from

toys or objects.

This kind of obsession with material objects

and anything that delights our sensuous senses to excess is called materialism or being

bamboozled by the superstition of matter. In my world view matter is just a concept it doesn't actually

exist. Matter is the name we give to our sensory experiences which are perceptions and perceptions in

turn are modified aspects of our own awareness and whatever we call the material world is

always changing and that includes our body but it also includes how we think about our body and how we think about the world.

And therefore, I consider any obsession with physical substance or perceptual experience or obsession with power, control, melodrama, all addictive behaviors as a result of not knowing the true

source of our happiness, which is our innermost self that modifies itself as sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, emotions. So when we can settle back into awareness, observe a thought as it arises

and subsides, or a feeling as it arises and subsides, or a sensation, or a

sensation,

perception, then we have come home.

Ultimately, that is the only way

to find fulfillment or joy.

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