If you ask love and God from poor money, your expectations are false. Money never promised them to you, but whatsoever money promises it can give. It never promises that it can give you love. If you expect it you are idiotic.
Money can be your love - love of things, not of persons. Things are what you can possess. Money is a means to possess things. The more money you have the more things you can possess. People who love things become like things.
People who cannot love persons start loving money and people who are afraid of love become possessive about money.
A man or woman who has suffered too much because of money, who has clung to money and could not love anybody or become open, becomes so frustrated in the end that he/she throws away the money, renounces and goes to the monastery and become a monk or nun.
If you understand, money can be used, but people who don't are either miser; they can't use money, or they renounce the money.
If you can accumulate money like a mad person, then one day you understand you wasted your whole life. When you understand this you become afraid, but the old habit persists. You can give the whole and forget about it and escape, but you cannot share it.
If a man of understanding has money he share it because money is not for itself, it is for life.
For women who are after money, money is the goal, love becomes just a means.
Money can give many things and money cannot give many things; when you use it then you know what money can give.
But money gives you purchasing power and you can purchase anything.
You cannot purchase love but you can purchase sex; sex is a commodity.
Money can be beautiful - if it is not possessed or being obsessed.
Love is also beautiful - if it is not being obsessed with possession of the other.
People who cannot love persons start loving money and people who are afraid of love become possessive about money.
A man or woman who has suffered too much because of money, who has clung to money and could not love anybody or become open, becomes so frustrated in the end that he/she throws away the money, renounces and goes to the monastery and become a monk or nun.
If you understand, money can be used, but people who don't are either miser; they can't use money, or they renounce the money.
If you can accumulate money like a mad person, then one day you understand you wasted your whole life. When you understand this you become afraid, but the old habit persists. You can give the whole and forget about it and escape, but you cannot share it.
If a man of understanding has money he share it because money is not for itself, it is for life.
For women who are after money, money is the goal, love becomes just a means.
Money can give many things and money cannot give many things; when you use it then you know what money can give.
But money gives you purchasing power and you can purchase anything.
You cannot purchase love but you can purchase sex; sex is a commodity.
Money can be beautiful - if it is not possessed or being obsessed.
Love is also beautiful - if it is not being obsessed with possession of the other.
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- - OSHO
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2 comments:
MAve,
I cannot agree more with this post..
Gukita,
I couldn't agree with what I wrote; but then, I couldn't object the truth - it's real!
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