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13-03-2014, 12:00 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

how i wish the pap would read this and be enlightened. for if they sincerely do, we would have a very happy people living in this little red dot called singapore :)

Have you noticed how wealth and possessions solidify our ego identity? to get these things, we need a certain type of job. Once we have the job, we need to drive a certain type of car, wear particular clothes, and live in a certain neighborhood to hold the image of someone working in that profession. So we need the job to get the possessions that are necessary to be someone who has that job. It's a cycle that leaves many people feeling trapped in their lives.

Of course, using our wealth to help others is definitely virtuous. But clinging on to it create a certain ego image or to flaunt it in front of others so that we feel successful does not fill the feeling of emptiness in our heart; nor does it benefit others. Everything we have comes to us due to the kindness of others; nothing is inherently ours. So sharing wealth with others makes much more sense on a practical level and makes us feel good about ourselves for we know the wealth is helping others.

Recognizing that we never have enough to feel totally secure and that at the time of death we separate from our wealth lessens our attachment to it. We stop being obsessed with wealth and driven to procure more. we cease being interested in presenting the image of ourselves as someone who is well to do and successful in a worldly way and instead become content with what we have. Contentment is real wealth. If we don't have contentment, we can have a million dollars and be very unhappy, but if we're content, our mind is at peace even if we have very little.

Thubten Chodron


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