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Nuggets of Wisdom 奥修 4431Words 2018-03-20
※※※ The reason money is a mixed thing is because we haven't been able to make a sound system in which money can be the servant of humanity as a whole, rather than the master of a greedy few. Money is a mixed thing, because the human heart is full of greed, otherwise money is just a tool for exchanging goods, a perfect tool, and there is nothing wrong with it, but because of our improper handling of it, in the Everything in it seemed wrong. If you don't have money, you are condemned, your whole life is hateful, so you spend your life trying to get rich by any means. If you have money, it doesn't change the basics, you want more, and your desire to want more is endless.When in the end you've got a lot of money -- it's not enough, it never will be enough, but it's more than anyone else -- and you start to feel guilty because the means you used to accumulate your wealth were ugly dehumanizing, violent.You've been exploiting, you've been sucking people's blood, you've been a parasite, so, now you have money, but it reminds you of all the crimes you committed to get that money.

This situation creates two kinds of people: the first, who starts donating to charity to get rid of his guilt, and the second, who feels so guilty that he either goes mad or kills himself.His own being became an excruciating agony, every breath became heavy.Strangely enough, he worked hard all his life to get this money because society aroused his desire and ambition for wealth and power. Money does bring power, it can buy everything except a few things money can't buy, but nobody worries about those few things.Meditation can't be bought, love can't be bought, friendship can't be bought, gratitude can't be bought, but nobody cares about those things.

※※※ Just pay attention to existence and its abundance, why do we need so many flowers in the world, only roses are enough, but existence is abundant, billions of flowers, billions of birds, billions of animals , everything is very rich. Nature is not ascetic, it dances everywhere - in the ocean, in the trees.It sang everywhere--in the wind that blows through the pines, in all kinds of birds... Why do there need to be hundreds of millions of solar systems, and there are countless stars in each solar system?These seem to be unnecessary, unless it is said that abundance is the nature of existence, and wealth is the core of existence; existence does not believe in poverty.

※※※ I don't see greed as a desire, it's some kind of existential disease -- You are not in tune with the whole.Only being in tune with the whole makes you divine. For me, greed is not a desire at all, so you don't have to do anything about greed, you have to understand the emptiness that you are trying to fill and ask, "Why am I empty? The whole existence is so empty. The ground is full, why am I empty? Maybe I'm off the rails, I'm no longer moving in the same direction as existence, I'm no longer existential, and that's why I'm empty." So to be existential, to let go, to approach being in stillness and peace, in meditation.One day you will know that you are so full, so full, so full of joy and joy and blessings.You have so much, you can give it to the whole world and it will still not be exhausted.

When such a day comes, for the first time you will not feel any greed -- greed for money, food, or anything.You will go on living, but not with greed, which cannot be satisfied, nor with a wound, which cannot be healed, you will live naturally, whatever is needed, you will turn up. ※※※ Everyone has inferiority complex in some way, the reason is that we have not accepted that everyone is unique.There is no question of inferiority or superiority, everyone is of his own kind, everyone is unique, there is no question of comparison, we do not allow people to accept them as they are.Once you accept yourself as you are, without any comparison, then all feelings of inferiority and superiority disappear, and in total acceptance of yourself, you are free from these feelings of inferiority or superiority complex, or you will suffer for life.

I can't imagine that one person can have everything in the world.People have tried that before, but they have all failed completely. Just being yourself is enough. You are embraced by the sun, you are embraced by the moon, you are embraced by the trees, you are embraced by the sea, you are embraced by the earth, what more could you want? You are accepted by this whole universe. You are to rejoice in it. ※※※ Hope to be recognized by others, hope to be recognized by others, this is everyone's need. The structure of our whole lives is to be taught that unless we can be recognized by others, we are unknown, we are worthless.The notion that our work is not important, but the acknowledgment is, turns the whole thing upside down.

Our work should matter, and it should be a joy in itself.We should work, not for recognition, but because we enjoy being creative, and you love work for its own sake.You love your job, that's why you do it. Don't ask for recognition from others, if recognition comes, accept it, if it doesn't come, then don't think about it, your satisfaction should be in the work itself. ※※※ If everyone learned the simple art of loving his work, whatever it is, enjoying it without asking for any recognition, then we would surely have a better and happier society, otherwise The world has put you in a painful mode.You think what you do is good not because you love it, or because you do it well, but because the world recognizes it, rewards it, gives you a gold medal or gives you a Nobel Prize.

They have taken away the intrinsic value of the whole creation, thus destroying billions of people, because you cannot give billions of people the Nobel Prize and you create within each one the desire to be recognized, So no one can work in peace, in peace, no one can enjoy whatever he is doing. Life is made up of little things for which there are no rewards, no government titles, no college honorary degrees. Anyone who has his own sense of himself will live according to his own love, according to his own work, without caring what other people think. ※※※ Happiness is not that you accomplish something, happiness is that you desire it, you desire it with all your intensity, so while you are doing it, you forget about everything else, you forget The whole world, it becomes the focus of your whole being.

Do this and there will be your joy and your reward -- and that joy and reward will not be in completion, or in something being eternal.In this changing flow of being, we must find its own reward in each moment. Whatever we are doing, we must give it our all, not half our hearts. Human existence is devoted to that behavior. That's where our joy lies. ※※※ Everyone is unique.It is a fact that every human being has some kind of individuality.We have to give up the concept of how people should be and replace it with a philosophy that no matter what people are, they are beautiful and there is no such thing as a "should" because we are old enough to impose any "should" on any on people?If existence can accept you as you are, what am I that cannot accept you?

So just change your attitude, once it gets into your heart, it becomes a very simple thing: everyone is unique, everyone is as he is, and he should be as he is Again, he doesn't have to be someone else to be accepted, he's already accepted, and that's what I mean by respecting individuality, respecting people for what they are. If we could accept people for who they are, the world would be a very loving and joyful place. ※※※ A communism that comes from love, that comes from ingenuity, that comes from generosity will be real, but a communism that comes through coercion is not real.

There is no man in the world - no matter how poor he may be - who has nothing to give. ※※※ Why not create a life where money doesn't create class, but just gives everyone more opportunity? ※※※ Those authoritarians are those who suffer from an inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority complex, they impose their superiority on top, they want to prove that they are someone, their word is truth, their word is law, yet deep down, they are very inferior people. ※※※ In nature, everything has an opportunity, a space, no one is the boss, no one is the master, and no one is the servant. Nature operates almost as an organic whole in which individuality is not lost, but in which the self has no opportunity to develop, so trees have no self, birds have no self, and animals have no self . Only people have this problem. ※※※ If a man feels that he is with the truth, he can stand alone against the whole world. This is the privilege of man, and only man has this privilege. If you feel that this is the way to lead to freedom, then you have to accept any responsibility, then all those responsibilities will not be a burden to you.They all make you more mature, more centered, more grounded in being, and more capable of being a beautiful individual. ※※※ There is only one moment in your hands - the real moment.You cannot get this moment again, either you experience it, or you leave it without experiencing it. ※※※ Every child understands that he sees the world differently from his parents, and as far as perspective is concerned, that is absolutely certain. His values ​​are absolutely different, he can collect seashells on the beach and the parents are like, "Throw them away, why are you wasting your time?" But to them, those seashells are beautiful. He could see that difference, he could see that their values ​​were very different.Parents are chasing money, he wants to collect butterflies, he can't understand why they are so interested in money: "What do you want all that money for?" And his parents couldn't understand, what did he want those butterflies or those flowers for? Every child learns that they are different from them.There was only one problem: he was afraid to assert that he was right. As far as he is concerned, he should have his own freedom, but that requires a little courage, and children have this courage, but the way the whole society works is: Even in children a quality as beautiful as courage is condemned. If parents really love children, they will help them to be brave, even if that courage is used against them.They will help children have the courage to stand up against their teachers, against society, and against anyone who would destroy their individuality. ※※※ Remember, never compromise, compromising is totally against my whole view. You see people whose lives are miserable because they compromise at every point and they cannot forgive themselves because they compromised.They knew they should be brave, but they proved to be cowards.In their own eyes they have fallen, they have lost their self-respect, and that is what compromise has done. Why should one compromise?Have we anything to lose?In this little life, we want to live as fully as possible, don't be afraid to go to extremes, you can't be more than total, that's the ultimate bottom line.Don't compromise.Your whole mind will be inclined to compromise, because that's how we were brought up, that's how we were conditioned. "Compromise" is the ugliest word in our language, it means: "You give half, I give half; I solve half, you solve half." Why should it be like this?Why would you compromise when you can have it all, when you can have your cake and have it all? Just a little bit of courage, just a little bit of courage -- just in the beginning.Once you experience uncompromising beauty and the dignity that it brings, and that wholeness and individuality, you will feel for the first time that you have roots, you will feel for the first time that you are made of yourself. center to live. ※※※ A miserable person can be easily enslaved, but a merry, joyful person cannot be enslaved. ※※※ Sex is the beginning of life and death is the end of the same life, so they are two ends of the same energy, they cannot be unconnected. Possibility is death in installments, and death is wholesale sex. But definitely, it's two different corners of the same energy working. ※※※ why not create a life where sex is not a painful experience, not a jealousy, not a failure; . You play tennis; that doesn't mean you have to play tennis with the same partner your whole life. Life should be a little richer, just a little understanding, then love will not be a problem, sex will not be taboo. ※※※ The mind is nothing but a collection of past memories, and from those memories the future is imagined.
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