Inner Wealth & the Budget

Today we see the new Budget.

Its a good opportunity to take a look at wealth and what it is.

There is a considerable amount of concern about money in our modern, materialistic society.

I remember a friend at primary school telling me he wanted to be a policeman because they have a good pension - he was eight, I was shocked!

Inner wealth is more important than external wealth - why?

The quality of our internal wealth influences our experience of happiness.

You can see this clearly if you take a visit to a developing country and see individuals who have very little but have an unusual quality of happiness - where does that come from?

The way we are educated, our values, our role models lead us to being interested in the acquisition of possessions both material - cars, houses, partners etc and non physical - our reputation, ideas, job development.

Its simple to see that an experience of well being and happiness arises from within - not the development of our external world.

This is straightforward to understand but for some reason complex to integrate into our life.

Often people who come to my workshops blame society for their stress and interest in acquisition. I would say it is to simple to fob off society with the blame - we need to take a look within the mind.

Meditation simplifies our existence - it aides us in the discovery of the internal wealth of happiness and well being.

Politicians have "power" because we give it to them - not really through the voting system but through our dependency on material development.