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Is It Okay To Be Greedy? | Sadhguru Answers - YouTube
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if something beyond the physical is
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becoming
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a living reality in your life
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contentment is a very bad idea
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if you were truly greedy you would
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aspire for the highest
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a powerful desire without a goal
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if your energy becomes full force
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not towards anything this is meditation
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i know that
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many of you have been
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brought up an idea
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or ideology that
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contentment is the greatest worship
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if you're content with who you are
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right now
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you're not even aware that if you're
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willing to strive
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who you could be
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the possibility
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of
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a human being
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causing his own evolution
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the possibility of a human being
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blossoming into
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a beautiful state of
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fragrance and beauty
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has been completely discounted
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that is why contentment
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once it happened that
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a newly married woman or a girl
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went back to her mother's place and said
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my husband is such a wonderful man
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that he gives me whatever i ask
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the worldly wise mother looked at her
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and said
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obviously you're not asking enough
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that's a mother's advice this is the
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mother-in-law
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so obviously you're not asking enough
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from life
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that is why you're content
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if if i'm greedy would it be better
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yes you must be greedy
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the problem right now is you're stingy
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about your greediness
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the problem in this world is not of
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greed
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the problem in this world is people are
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stingy
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they are stingy that's why they don't
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aspire for the biggest possibility
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they want to save themselves for the
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next world
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if you are
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greedy you would want everything from
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life
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isn't it would you be
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just satisfied with little more money
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or a little more property or little more
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power
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a little more pleasure if you were truly
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greedy
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you would aspire for the highest isn't
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it
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now greed is not the problem
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people are stingy that's a problem
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enough the word enough must be removed
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from our vocabulary
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because enough is relevant only to the
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physicality of life
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if you're being served food at some
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point you have to say it's enough
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it doesn't matter what anything that is
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physical
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at some point you will have to say
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enough
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and enough
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or contentment has become a valuable
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thing
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in people's minds only because
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they have not looked at or they have not
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explored
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dimensions beyond the physical
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because physicality
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is a limited entity physicality is a
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limited
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quantity by itself
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anything that's physical is within
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certain limitations
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so if you get greedy with the physical
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there will not be enough for somebody
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else
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suppose there is this much food if you
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say i want all of it
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then somebody else will not have it
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there's only this much land
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if somebody says i want all of it some
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nobody else will have it
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like mahatma said there is enough for
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everybody's need
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not enough for even one man's greed that
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is true with the physicality
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if your if your life and the realm of
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your experience is limited to the
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physical nature of the existence
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enough contentment is a good idea
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but if your life is beginning to explore
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dimensions beyond the physical
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if something beyond the physical is
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becoming
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a living reality in your life
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contentment is a very bad idea
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that means you will stunt yourself
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the very possibility of becoming
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a limitless
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being the very possibility of becoming
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a boundless nature you will destroy
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the moment you say i will be content
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contentment is a boundary
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this much is enough means you're drawing
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that bigger boundary
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enough is not a good idea contentment is
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not a good idea
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your limited ideas of success is not a
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good idea
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till this till till this being
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allows itself to blossom to a boundless
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state
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you should not be content you must burn
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with discontent now
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contentment is need not be brought into
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our life
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as an ideology it is just that
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if your aspiration becomes limitless if
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your
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aspiration and desire is not selective
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it desires for just everything then
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naturally you would not limit yourself
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to the physicality of the existence
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when it is no more selective desire just
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becomes a powerful energy
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to expand to burst open this being
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who is containing himself with
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contentment
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people are trying to achieve contentment
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at different levels at different stages
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of life please see this
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what you call as contentment is just
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containment
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you try to draw a boundary of some kind
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of some semblance of
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sanity for yourself but
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that boundary satisfies you and gives
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you sanity
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only for a short period of time then it
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has to be expanded
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otherwise it will not it is not going to
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work
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at the age of 20 whatever you thought is
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going to be your contentment does it
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remain your contentment when you're 30
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whatever your ideas of contentment at 30
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does it remain contentment at 40 unless
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you're going down the tube
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unless your life is a total failure
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then your idea of contentment will be
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coming down
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but if you are on a upswing your ideas
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of contentment keep
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expanding isn't it if you are a failure
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in your life
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only then your idea of contentment
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becomes smaller
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otherwise it's constantly expanding
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contentment is just a cautious way
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of attending to boundlessness
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you're being cautious you want to go
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towards boundlessness in installments
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in installments if you seek the infinite
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you're a lost case because nobody
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has ever reached what we refer to as
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infinite
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by counting one two three four five
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through installments you are not going
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to go to the infinite
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that cannot happen in the very nature of
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things
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if you choose installments as a way
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towards boundlessness or infinite nature
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you will just become endless counting
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that's all that can happen
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endless counting will tire you one day
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just count and see today you start
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counting now
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don't stop just keep counting simply at
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your own pace
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not at my pace at your own pace one two
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three four five start counting don't
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stop
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you say till where you can go without
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tiring yourself
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not physical exhaustion i'm saying
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you'll just be tired of counting because
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you know
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it's not getting you anywhere so
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desiring process
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is a limitless process but you are
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limiting it by being selective about
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your desires
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i desire this i desire that i desire
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that
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i desire that but not this this and this
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if you take away the discrimination
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discriminatory nature of your desire
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if you sit here right now and
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do not desire for anything particular
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just desire for everything
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just everything just see if your mind
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can do it
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don't desire for anything in particular
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just simply desire
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everything first of all you don't know
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what is everything
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nobody knows what is everything isn't it
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everything that you know and everything
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that you do not know
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just desire for all the things that you
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know and do not know
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you will see desire the energy that you
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call as desire
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becomes a powerful force to become
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meditative
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meditation devotion is just this
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a desire without a goal
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a powerful desire without a goal
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if your desire if your energy
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becomes full force not towards anything
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this is meditation if you're on the
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spiritual process
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there is no such thing as contentment
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there is no such thing as enough
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greed is the rule
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okay greed is a bad word though
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no but greed is the rule
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because limitless desire is generally
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considered greed
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but it's not true greed is going by
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installments
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if someone is taking larger installments
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than you
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you consider that as greed isn't it
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yes or no yes or no
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if somebody is going for larger
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installments than yourself
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you consider that person greedy
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if they're going at the same level of
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installments as you
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you consider that competition
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if somebody is going at a smaller
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installments than you
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you call that incompetent
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isn't it so someone is taking
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they only desire for this much when
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they're successful they go for that much
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you look at him and then he's not my
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class
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somebody's going at the same level of
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installments as you
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that's competition somebody's going for
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leaps and bounds
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greedy
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so greed is a very relative term
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everybody is attaching a certain level
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of desire as greed
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according to their understanding
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according to their limitations
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in my vocabulary there is no such thing
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as greed
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because i feel a human being
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should seek nothing less than everything
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and when he's seeking everything small
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things will not keep his attention
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he will not be thinking of food he will
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not be thinking of currency
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he will not be thinking of pieces of
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property
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he will be thinking of the largest
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possibility nothing less
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