explain the greed ...

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Dear B., explain the greed.

 

 

Yes, yes, ...explain the greed,

explain the greed.

Well, ...greed is the seed,

for all you `think' ...you need.

 

 

Dear P.,

 

Yes, greed is the seed, ...for all you `think' you need. You can even

go little further and say that the greed is the seed for what you

think. Not just what you think, you need but the very seed of why

you `think'. In a way, it is seed of you. It is the seed of you ...as

you know it. Seed of your ego, seed of you as the ego, ....very seed

of `me this', `me that'.

 

Fear and greed are not ...that different. In fact, they are just the

opposite side of the same coin. In one you are wanting to

become ...something more. In the other, you are wanting to not

become ...something less. Yet, in both the want is same, the `you'

that wants is same. It is the same you, same ego and these are just

its survival tactics. It is the fight of survival, ...the survival of

ego. And, it keeps going on, it keeps going on ...every moment of

your life, every breath that you take. Every breath is like a

reminder to you, like an alarm clock that you use to ...create it

again. That's why the breath-awareness works so well, that's why the

breath-consciousness works so well ...that's why vipassana works. It

brings the alarm clock into the light. It brings the mechanism into

the foreground.

 

....watch your breath and you will be surprised.

 

And, greed and fear are like close cousins, like brothers, ...like

very true friends. They work with and for each other. And, they help

each other. If one gets weak the other tries to help. Try killing one

and the other will sneak from the back, from behind. You can observe

it anytime.

 

Reason that people get so greedy is basically ...because of

insecurity, because of fear. They gather so much but still they think

its is not enough, ...it may not last, there might be famine, there

might be draught, there might be an attack, there might be a nuclear

explosion, what about the children they may not have enough when they

become fifty, what about their children ...and, the list goes on and

on. But, all this collection, after all this gathering and greed the

basic fear, the basic lack still remains the same. It is insatiable.

It is an illusion. And, people continue committing numerous

atrocities on fellow human beings ...in the name of a desire that can

not be fulfilled, a mechanics that is broken at its very core.

 

....It is simply the survival mechanism of the ego. And, the ego

is ...never secure, never safe. The false can be never secure. False

can never be safe. Only the real can know any security, any safety

and until the real is known the fear continues, the insecurity

continues and the game of the continues.

 

 

And, there is no problem. All it takes is ...little imagination and

the machine has infinite. All it takes is imagining some possible or

not-possible situations that the mind can buy into at it ranges from

the though of a child falling sick to an asteroid hitting earth or

the earth moving out of its orbit. On the other side it is even

easier, ...even this much imagination is not required. creation of

greed is much simpler ...all that is required is to just add a little

to what is already there ...and, once that is ...something more can

be added to that too. If you have 100, you can want 1000, them

million ...and all you need is to some additions each time. It is

very simple and ...the same game works every time.

 

There is no problem because the machine is permanently installed.

Permanently installed in every brain, ...in every skull. The same

machine that creates ego, also creates greed and fear for all its

survival and food. And, every breath is just alarm ...here, we go

again. And, it is timed to ...perfection. Body takes the breath and

the brain recreates the ego. The body gets it food ...as air. So does

the ego ...as a thought. As a thought with either greed or fear in

its root, their illusory fulfillment, end as its goal. That's why

loss of ego also feels physical death, the breathing seems to be

stopping and the body itself feels like dying. ...And, the moment you

start observing your breath, the thoughts too start dispersing.