Buddhist beliefs | Spiritual development
People turn to material comforts as a way of life, their Spiritual development is suffocated by the things around them. But when more and more people react against materialism, more spiritual development is bound to happen. The relevance of spiritual development to our religious life is that spiritual development gives substance or meaning to our religious life. It is also the bond which unites all the groups of different religions in the world. Unless our religious life is accompanied by spiritual development it is merely following a set of doctrines and practices. It will have no lasting, beneficial effect on our way of life. Unless we develop our spiritual life the different groups of religion will always be fighting one another on grounds of teaching and practice. In a similar way, there are spiritual predators, spirits who envy our human spiritual development and thwart it. Many books can Introduction to Buddhism . Paul the Apostle warns us that our real enemies are spiri...