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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15:24 - this is the most judgmental thing I have read in a very, very long time.  How do you know what *anyone* needs?  [/quote]

The misunderstanding of the day.  It's not at all judgmental at all, and I of course don't claim to know, or be able to know, what anyone needs or doesn't need, or should or shouldn't need.  It is simply one way to define reality, and a reflection of a state of the mind -- the state of mind of thinking oneself as needing, or doesn't needing, a particular thing, which may or may not be reality.  I need a number of things, and I don't need a number of things.  Perhaps my neighbor doesn't need, and therefore doesn't have (and doesn't "have to have"), some things that I have or I need to have, and to which I have become attached (and therefore I fear losing, and therefore I fear, and therefore I can potentially suffer), and in that sense, my neighbor is "richer" (i.e. more satisfied with reality) than I am.  At the extreme, a person who doesn't need absolutely anything (who of course doesn't exist) is the richest person of all.  And a wealthy person who constantly fears losing his wealth is poorer, because his mind is, to an extent, occupied with suffering.  The conqueror, by having to constantly keep guard of his conquest, becomes a slave of the thing he conquered.

Which reminds me of what Saint Francis of Assisi said, "I desire few things, and the few things I desire, I desire them just a little bit."

And all of this is tangential to this thread, of course.  But, can you imagine living a life in which one fears absolutely no envy for anyone else, and one is just purely happy for others' good fortunes, and purely compassionate for others' misfortunes?  Absolutely no envy.    [/quote]

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