FOOD FOR THOUGHT....THE MISCONCEPTION OF MONEY

ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO GET CERTAIN IDEAS THAT U HOLD TRUE TO BE CONFIRMED...AND AS I CONTINUE TO FIND MY WAY AS A MAN THROUGH LIFE...I'M LEARNING EVERYDAY ABOUT MASTERING MY WORLD...WHICH IS MY VIEWS ON MY PATH TO MY DESTINATION THAT I SEE WITHIN MY BRAIN...SO THIS IS AN ARTICLE I RAN INTO AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO LINK IT FROM THE ORIGINAL SITE SO I'M GOING TO COPY AND PASTE WHAT I READ AND MAYBE YOU COULD SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS WITH ME...BUT I READ THIS AND WAS LIKE WOW SO I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THIS WAY...I'M FROM HAITI WHERE I WAS TAUGHT WE ARE THE CREATORS OF OUR UNIVERSE SIMPLY BECAUSE WE MADE SOMETHING OUTTA NOTHING EVERYDAY....AND NOW I FINALLY AM SEEKING MY OWN ANSWERS INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD TELLS ME.......





Why "we are" always thinking of money?

Everybody thinking of money,don't be worried.

Money should not become the goal, but I am not saying at the same time that you should renounce it and become beggars -- use it, it is a good means.Money is like blood circulating in the body: in the body of society money circulates, it is blood.Money is not just there outside in the currency notes, it is something to do with your inner mind and attitudes. Money is your love of things, money is your escape from persons, money is your security against death, money is your effort to control life, money is a thousand and one things. Money is not just in the currency notes otherwise things would have been very easy.
Money is your love -- love of things, not of persons. The most comfortable love is of things because things are dead, you can possess them easily.People who cannot love persons start loving money because money is a means to possess things.The more money you have, the more things you can possess; and the more things you can possess, the more you can forget about persons. You will have many things but you will not have any contentment because deep contentment comes only when you love a person. The money will not revolt but it cannot respond also, that is the trouble. That's why miserly people become very ugly. Nobody has responded to their love ever. How can you be beautiful without love falling on you, without love showering on you like flowers -- how can you be beautiful? You become ugly. You become closed. A man who possesses money or tries to possess money, is miserly and he will always be afraid of persons and people because if they are allowed to come closer they may start sharing. If you allow somebody closeness you have to allow some sharing also. People who love things become like things -- dead, closed. Nothing vibrates in them, nothing dances and sings in them, their hearts have lost the beat, they live a mechanical life. They drag, burdened, burdened with many things, but they don't have any freedom because only love can give you freedom; and love can give you freedom only if you give freedom to love.
People who are afraid of love become possessive about money. People who love become non-possessive, money doesn't matter much.If a man of understanding has money he shares it because money is not for itself, it is for life. If he feels that life needs it, love needs it, he can throw it away completely, but it is not a renunciation, it is again using it. Love is the goal for him; money is never the goal, money is the means. For people who are after money, money is the goal, love becomes just a means. Even their prayer is for money; even prayer becomes a means to money.
Why do people get so much into it, and so many people at that? It has a certain appeal, a magnetic appeal. Money has a hypnotic appeal in it and the appeal is that you can possess it completely. Money is very docile, it becomes a slave. The ego feels very fulfilled.

Love is not docile, love is rebellious. You cannot possess love. You can possess a woman, you can possess a man, but you can never possess love. If you possess a woman, the woman has become money, a thing; if you possess a man, the man has become money, a thing, an instrument. A man is a man and a woman is a woman only when they are an end unto themselves, not a means to anything else. Money is the means, and to become obsessed with the means is the greatest foolishness that can occur to a man and the greatest curse.
Money is beautiful as far as it goes, and it goes far enough! As far as the world is concerned it goes far enough, but don't expect love, because it is of the interior, of the inner being, and don't ask for God, because it is transcendental.
If a man of understanding has money he shares it because money is not for itself, it is for life. If he feels that life needs it, love needs it, he can throw it away completely, but it is not a renunciation, it is again using it.

Use everything for its own capacities, not for your dreams. Then you are a healthy man, and to be healthy is to be holy. Don't be abnormal in any way. Be normal, ordinary, and just create more understanding so that you can see. Money can be used,should be used, it can give you a beautiful world.
Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable. But people go on looking for money as if money is going to bring happiness. People go on looking for respectability as if respectability is going to give you happiness. People are ready, at any moment, to change their pattern, to change their ways, if more money is available somewhere else.
Money is there, but there is no contentment inside -- and life has gone down the drain.

/source:Osho/