When we will be happy without money in this materialistic world?

Question

I am fed up with this gadgets cars and luxuries

Answer 1

If you are fed up then go on with your life as you like. Me I love my cars, gadgets, clothes, food..........and I am willing to work hard to get them

Answer 2

Its a bit difficult to live without money entirely. You need to eat, have shelter and be clothed. These are basic needs even so called homeless people receive at the shelters.
You can live with monks where they cultivate the land and take vows of poverty. A vow of poverty really means you don't own anything yourself but everything belongs to the community that you live with.. for instance, you pool your money in one account and have a meeting on what needs to be bought. Your room has a bed, a stand with a light so you can read and books to read from the community library. Your clothing can be limited and unvaried.
The hippies had communes like that for awhile in the 60s, but you don't see many of them today because as people have families they want more for their children.
Turning off the TV helps; being bombarded by commercials telling you there will be no joy without this product doesn't help. Living with less can be done, being poor isn't much fun unless you have a real attitude towards this vocation. You must find joy in less 'things'.. of course you need to fill that with more spiritual attitudes towards helping others so you don't think about the situation your in....that is why unless you feel a call into being a hermit you should consider living in a community of the same thoughts as yourself.

Answer 3

Money is a necessary evil. Humans gather in cities for protection. That creates too
much competition as far as the old bartering system.( Exhanging goods).
So the money system was designed.
It's really a very fragile system. If we all went to the banks to get our money. They
wouldn't have it. Because much of what we are told people are worth, is in
assests. (Buildings, property).
That's why everything crashed many years ago. People getting scared and taking their money out of the banks. And not long ago, they expected a crash, and nothing happened. Luckily, the apathy of people, (not caring and leaving their money in the
banks), saved our butts!
It's only because people have to work to pay their bills, that the money system
stays afloat.
And I personally feel their is a concentrated effort by truly evil people, we never see, (and the leaders of countries are just pawns to them), to destroy the money system.
That way we'll all have a little card. And they'll have all the money.
How? By playing on peoples materialism. Wanting more than they can afford to pay for. Living above thier means. Then getting us to strike, demanding more money. More
benefits. So they can raise the prices for their goods.
That's how the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. And they know that by getting us to demand more, and more, the money system will go bust!
Capitalism, the Free Market, are designed to create competiton, to keep prices down!
We need to "lower" the prices! But that will take sacrifice.
Giving some things up!

Answer 4

What you're talking about is what is expected to happen after Armageddon. Materialism will no longer be a part of life. Want a bigger house, mill the wood and build it, yourself. With 100% use of our mental capabilities and life without aging or illness, there is no need to gather material goods. Want to visit the California coast, take a walk there from most anywhere on the planet. With a Paradise Earth, food will be readily available along the way.

Answer 5

You are contradictory in your statement. If you accept materialism then money is the primary criterion and if you leave materialism then like Buddha you can walk out into the world leaving all luxuries behind and sit under a tree to get enlightenment and happiness. Now you choose what you want.

Answer 6

HELLO the happiness is not lies in the money or the material its only lies in U so go and live the life without money and this material U will see the Happiness

Answer 7

My dear friend happiness is the subject of inner part of our sole but we always search in external world then we need money,I can set a example- if u love someone and help him/her which is not concern with money then certainly u will feel glad in yourself

Answer 8

Then, stop spending your money on gadgets cars and luxuries.
If your happiness is tied to money, spend yours on therapy.

Answer 9

your question is contradicting...you say when will we be happy w/o money...yet u set it in a materialistc world...its not possible to be happy nd be in a materialistic world...one could be happy w/o money when you take urself outta the world of materials

Answer 10

No, we're too caught up in capitalism & luxury goods are perceived as "status"