There is an idea in spiritual circles that being spiritual means not being materialistic. The more spiritual you are, the less materialistic you are. The most spiritual people say that they want to come to the point that they don't need material anymore. I am against this thought. I don't think it is possible and, I would actually say that I want to be materialistic.
Yes, I want to have material. Why? Because the children whom we are helping here are in need of material! If we didn't earn money and our charity organization didn't get donations, how would we pay their food, books, pens, uniforms and teachers?
Well, fine, I agree it is not helpful to collect and collect material just so that you can look at it or know that you have it somewhere. At the same time however we live in a material world. You can live without spirituality but you cannot live without material.
You eat food – material. You wear clothes – material. You heat your home – material! All is coming from material and everyone who doesn't have food, clothes or warmth in his home wants exactly that: enough material to eat, clothe and get himself warm!
So if you are on the spiritual path and believe you have to get rid of everything material, forget about it, the real spirituality is when you learn to share your material.
People like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates – who is not even religious, not even believing in god – have donated 80 or 90 percent of their wealth to others. To me, they are much more spiritual than all those gurus and big religious people who have built huge temples and Ashrams while preaching to others they should leave materialism! From the material of others they enrich themselves and pretend to be the most spiritual of all.
If you are materialistic and learn to share material, you won't need any more spirituality, being materialistic is good when you share your material. We all need food, clothes and warmth. If you just think of this and learn sharing, you can forget about any spiritual lesson you have ever got.
There is no need for spirituality if you know how to share your material. But you cannot say that you don't need material if you have spirituality.
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