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What is greed?

Greed is the frantic attempt to fill the void of inner emptiness, but true freedom arises when we embrace that emptiness as the gateway to our authentic self.

— Osho
According to Osho, greed is the compulsive stuffing of sex, food, money, power, and attention to escape the fear of inner emptiness. This emptiness is not death but the doorway to our real self and to God; forgetting it breeds neurosis and sustains power-obsessed society. Freedom begins by honoring inner emptiness instead of accumulating or seeking attention.

Greed is trying to fill a scared feeling of inner emptiness with things or praise, but that emptiness is where your true self lives—so feel it instead of stuffing it.

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