What are the feelings and power dynamics surrounding money?
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"Money can buy comfort and culture, but it can never purchase the true treasures of love, compassion, and enlightenment; to master life is to honor inner wealth while wisely using the power of money."
According to Osho, money is a life-affirming power: it buys almost everything needed for a rich, cultured life—comforts, learning, great art and music—but never the essential inner treasures of love, compassion, freedom, enlightenment. Religions oppose money because they oppose life’s sensual fullness; such moralism (and political bans like Aurangzeb’s) weaponizes poverty and deprivation to control sensitivity. Real mastery honors inner wealth while using money wisely.
Money helps you enjoy life’s beauties, but it can’t buy love or wisdom—so don’t fear or worship it; use it well while growing your heart.
Why this matters practically
- Use money as a tool for comfort, learning, and sensitivity to art.
- Release guilt about wealth; invest in inner values money can’t buy.
- Question ideologies or rules that weaponize poverty or ban life-affirming arts.
- Release guilt about wealth; invest in inner values money can’t buy.
- Question ideologies or rules that weaponize poverty or ban life-affirming arts.
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