While this thinking or form of meditation has given people a profusion of benefits that have become a great blessing in the material area, people have stagnated in the more profound mental area. How can one see this? It is seen through the fact that the experience of life is not simply a material phenomenon. It is to an equally high degree a spiritual reality. This in turn means that the living being is not only a material thing; it is also a spiritual phenomenon. Without this phenomenon it could not possibly exist as a living being. This spiritual phenomenon is therefore something that is absolutely primary in the being in question.