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Truth wealth realization is needed - now

We are born with true wealth, but constantly forget to realize the wealth we already have.
By Americ Azevedo My Real Name bronze starAssistant Noozer
Published: 30 July 2008 06:31 am
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We are born with true wealth, but constantly forget to realize the wealth we already have. Failing to acknowledge our true wealth we keep grasping for more, like hungry ghosts who are never satisfied while constantly eating! Thus, we go about despoiling the earth, corrupting relationships, and twisting societies into grotesque forms that promote needless suffering for ourselves, others, and the earth as a whole. Realizing true wealth leads to personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal fulfillment. Furthermore, the long-term survival of life on earth depends upon true wealth realization.

We need deep psychological and spiritual healing of individuals, groups, communities, nations, and the earth. The bedrock of this healing is a return to this present moment, not in a selfish, narrow way, but in a way that includes the totality of what is here–there as well as past–present–future. It is nothing less than the ancient ideal of enlightenment of all sentient beings.

Americ Azevedo, philosopher-at-large.com

(This is part of an article titled "Realizing True Wealth" that first appeared in Verna Allee & Dinesh Chandra (Eds.) What is True Wealth & How Do We Create it? Indigo Press, A Division of Print and Media Associates, New Delhi, India, 2004.)

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Dave49000 - Jul 30, 2008 9:46 ameye
I just read a definition of Gen Y, which clearly separated them from Gen X. They are the next best hope.
Dave49000 - Aug 1, 2008 1:17 pmeye
I tend to be picky about the word "wealthy." To me the wealthy were the people I worked for back at the big corporate defense firm in Houston. They make their money well before things go retail. Their work is go to parties where they exchange info about the next early stage deal. They are integrated into wealthy society. They took two generations to arrive. It was daddy's money that put them into the exclusive private schools where their lifelong connections to the elite were formed. They join fraternities and sororities for life, not to pull an Animal House. Those connections are their life and income. It's all about family money. They have a family corporation and an accountant for the household accounts. They are not well off middle class people. They don't think like members of the middle class, and it is the way we think that determines our economic class, our culture. Anyway, well past long winded here. The wealthy are now referred to as the super wealthy. The well off middle class now thinks of itself as being wealthy and votes with the super wealthy even though they still think middle class, and have a long way to go before their children are integrated into the super wealthy class. Is there some simpler way to say that we have an abundant life without referring to it as wealth?
Americ Azevedo - Aug 4, 2008 12:07 pmeye
"Is there some simpler way to say that we have an abundant life without referring to it as wealth?" Dave writes. I guess it is "abundant life"! If we have that we don't need "wealth" because we "are wealth" itself - that is, we are Life, aware, awake life. That is awesome. If we have too many things, we find it easier to forget who we really are in the glitter of things.
Dave49000 - Aug 4, 2008 12:33 pmeye
My girlfriend just finished moving into her mother's adult-only retirement community home. It's the thing you do once all the kids move out and you need a smaller palce. She was on a decluttering tear. So much was given away, sold, recycled, and thrown away. At some point down the road, she will move into a nursing home--the next decluttering. Then, you move into your coffin--the final decluttering. All along the way you get rid of the stuff our lives were made of, and boil it down to the essentials: a roof, some clothes, and whatever peace of mind we allow ourselves.
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