Why does the outlook of gain persist despite its negative consequences?
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"The mind that judges greed as 'loss' is itself the embodiment of greed; only by seeing its futility can you dissolve the obsession with profit and end the endless chase."
According to Osho, the outlook of gain persists because the very mind that judges greed as 'loss' is greed itself; profit-and-loss vision keeps renewing itself by seeking safer profits—shifting targets from world to heaven. As long as you look through gain/loss, greed only hides and returns. Only right seeing—recognizing greed's utter futility, not its harm—ends the chase and dissolves the profit-obsession.
We keep chasing more because our “I want more” glasses turn everything into winning or losing, so we just swap prizes until we see those glasses are useless and take them off.
Why this matters practically
- Make choices from clarity, not from gain/loss calculations.
- Avoid turning spirituality into another profit-seeking project.
- Seeing desire’s futility calms anxiety and ends endless chasing.
- Avoid turning spirituality into another profit-seeking project.
- Seeing desire’s futility calms anxiety and ends endless chasing.
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