1. Material life: everyone is busy for sense gratification

    When you stand on the street, you see that everybody is very busy. The storekeeper is busy, the motorcar driver is busy — everyone is very busy. How are they busy? If you minutely study their business, you will find that their only business is sense gratification. That's all. Everyone is busy trying to gratify his senses. This is material life.

    From TQE 4c: How to See and Know God