Mindfulness is on everyone's lips today. People critically question "having" and search for meaning in life. For a long time now, it has not only been about leisure time, it has also been about shaping our entire existence differently. This attitude is countered by the model of homo economicus, in which man finds himself as a labour force and consumer. But there is resistance against the logic of Western civilization. Niko Paech is at the forefront of post-growth economists and calls on them to free themselves from material abundance. What has a revolutionary effect is "normal" in Buddhism, where the focus on being or thinking in cycles has been a lived practice for 2,500 years. Are Degrowth and Buddhism even soul mates in their core? What can Western societies learn from Buddhism to abandon the destructive growth path? The author.