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If we understand the “religion of consumption” as a modern attitude towards the purchase of goods and services, which should drive economic development, then Buddhism, firstly, considers any dependence, including on consumption, to be evil, a cause of suffering, and secondly, it offers a different model of development. In 1955, Ernst Schumacher proposed the concept of a Buddhist economy in which progress is determined by minimizing suffering, reducing desires, avoiding violence, and so on.
I am very happy for true Buddhists, who are alien to the religion of consumption. They live in the trees like free birds, without worrying about comfortable housing, they eat grass food, they walk around wrapped in paws. So what's going on? Or do they still have something from consumption?
The Buddhist teaching says that our insatiable desires and aspirations are the cause of suffering, and in order to get rid of suffering, we need to get rid of these insatiable desires and that the way to spiritual joys is through giving up pleasure. The Buddha formed the Four Noble Truths and they can be summarized as follows:
1. there is suffering; The essence of our life is suffering
2. there is a cause of suffering-desire;
3. there is a cessation of suffering — nirvana;
4. there is a path leading to the cessation of suffering, related to the teachings of the Buddha.�
Since the philosophy of consumption, on the contrary, inflames all sorts of desires in a person and explains that happiness lies in pleasure and satisfaction of desires, they lead to the opposite view of life with Buddhism.