love
Agnieszka

even a fool can see that income is important, without income remainning happy needs saintly efforts ! but if one gets so obssed with income and incerasing one’s income, that one starts devoting 10-12-14 hours to work, then he has had it, one has stopped living, one who is not living cannot be happy, inanimate being who cacnot be happy cannot be sad either, but humans if they are not happy, they become sad ! ( or in some rare cases enlightend, neither happy nor sad, but in some kind of bliss in paradise !!? of cours i don’t beielve it, those who claim thus must be cheating, no )

Lots of appreciation and may God bless the whole world with unconditional, spontaneous love!
Carmen Larisa

love is the fare of the soul

money is an illusion created by time

each single thing

one wants

cost an equal amount of due time

want less

own more time

for gardening love

carrots, apples and flowers

create order in your verbs

be

have

do

give

behave and do give

love

for peace

The monk Sona came to the Buddha with a question on why he was not having success in his practice, the Buddha answered (adapted from Anguttara Nikaya by Nyanaponika Thera):

“Tell me, Sona, in earlier days were you not skilled in playing stringed music on a lute?”
“Yes, Lord.”
“And, tell me, Sona, when the strings of that lute were too taut, was then your lute tuneful and easily playable?”
“Certainly not, O Lord.”
“And when the strings of your lute were too loose, was then your lute tuneful and easily playable?”
“Certainly not, O Lord.”
“But when, Sona, the strings of your lute were neither too taut nor too loose, but adjusted to an even pitch, did your lute then have a wonderful sound and was it easily playable?”
“Certainly, O Lord.”
“Similarly, Sona, if energy is applied too strongly, it will lead to restlessness, and if energy is too lax, it will lead to lassitude. Therefore, Sona, keep your energy in balance and balance the Spiritual Faculties and in this way focus your intention.”

Easterlin Paradox is right in a way. There are truly things that money can buy. Beginning wih happiness.
Maybe more, the poorer person is more willing to find that feeling than a rich person. As poverty guide us to the Elemental Thing, where the Whole exists.
But this would be just looking at the tree, to forget the forest.

We all live in a society that took a special way to distribute needs. People that don’t have money can’t afford themselves or their family. Often, they fall in a kind of depression because they can’t find a way, to have the minimum even; for some. Because they consider the problem in a wrong sight.

First, people don’t have to look for money. This for honest people.
Evil people know how to have without problems, when they wish it.
Between those two cases, is a third person: an honest one, who has money.
That proves us that we could be honest and earn fruit of our work. Though people often believe they don’t deserve anything. Some say the solution is in forgetting to have. Is he happier anyway?

Let’s remember Jesus. Because maybe the way we saw his regard with rich people is too extremist. Of course he came to show us the way to God. And as we know to have a kind of life, we need poverty, ascetism, meditation, errance, suffering, passion…
If Jesus man’s life ended with passion shows us the unlimited way a man can reach. Who could tell another man did?
Or into his royal line?
If people want to live without money, they should become a monk and follow their path, guiding by great persons.
But in the case they have to feed their family, they spend their life, cutting themselves for a real full freedom.

So do we have to think about? Do we have to ask and think always, or don’t think at all? A lot of methods exist nowadays, that face to the religious ideas dealing with compassion, poverty and charity. But Human are not dupe. They feel money as a wrong thing. Money is the destructor of their life, of the world. And there’s no rule to receive. As in love, if we accept it, the door opens.

But there is a thing that may surely take someone to happiness: to realize his dream. Cause, even if the way is frequently thorny, gifts are there richer.
Life rewards good ideas. And during that time, the poor is creating, instead of complaining. He’s happy anyway, because he has his dream in his heart, to his hand.

Still, money is a meaning to do things that rejoice. Life is totally different for a person that can take any plane to go where he likes, than a person that works eat and sleep.
yet it depends on anybody to accept total poverty, prosperity, or medium. Good or bad life.
Although we are responsible for our own life, we are also for others. As some arrive on earth and have only a few days to live…

People dislikes money, and don’t understand it. Indeed, it’s a virtual thing. But all the world is hanged up to its assumed sleeves!
As though, one day emerged an idea, that finally, money was too important on Earth to play blinds.
Well, spirituality is a need as money for a father, as an example. With a lack of money he could dive under the threshold of poverty, but unfortunately often, under the one of dignity.

So money is a meaning, not an aim. Or there would ne no more starving babies.
The aim is the dream. And hapiness will come. Some satisfy themselves without money, as ascetic persons. And do good or evil.
But some want the meaning without thinking. Without asking what is the World’s demands.

Surely, we don’t need all those things, gadgets, objects; some dangerous for ourselves and our heirs.
But we have to think differently.
Not to feel guilty to ask, while we’re creating something that feel good, and deserve some help to be created. But as an help merely, not as a goal. Sometimes a scientist needs money to find a jab. It occurs precisely now in France, and certainly abroad. Without this money he couldn’t save life… That’s why people should leave the guilt with money, when they are doing good. Good people have to evolve in all circles.

No rules to be rich and happy. People can also be “spiritual” and have poor living life, and food. And if all poor heart have fruits to share, no brothers and sisters wouldn’t want anymore. That’s will be equality.
For now, Unite Human conscious melt money with evil. During the time we could create a better world, and share.
People may dream and create it, for good wealth.

Good night.

love
Agnieszka

Rich people in countries where the political and
juridical systems are falling apart, where it is
a danger for your life just to take the bus to your work (and I’m not speaking about Israel here),
where the only children playing on the streets
are the homeless surviving as thieves,

there I think rich people worry more

than what poor people in more safe environments do.

Just a thought,
we take so much for granted,
where in other parts of the world
we live in a paradise.