The purpose of a spiritual path is to lead the practitioner to happiness. The authentic and time-tested traditions work – they deliver the goods. But the false religion of consumer capitalism cannot bring the happiness we seek in it, and we are living proof of that. We got everything the ideology promised and were not made happy as a result.

This videocast is taken from a public talk at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in Los Angeles in December of 2007.

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