I think I am, based on some retrospection, embarking upon a truth. Let's see if it can be established as true, with some further observation and retrospection of lived real experience.
What we do with greed in the end gets wasted.
In principle it makes sense, as greed is always what we don't need, and so as greed will drive us to acquire or experience more than we need we end up with things that we can't use or absorb or assimilate.
That greed could be in any area, greed of the intellect, greed for information, greed in feelings, greed in love, greed in money, greed in possessing objects, greed for food, greed for sensation etc.
Some examples, we may study an excessive number of courses, and in our work at the office we never use what we studied. When we eat excessively that excess food becomes fat which we don't need, when we buy an excessive number of things they don't get used and in time just decay, when we accumulate more money than we need it sits there in the bank doing nothing or is spent unwisely buying more things that we don't need etc. etc.
The hypnotic factor of greed is that we believe we 'need' more or that more 'more' is good..
In conclusion, this is a very good reason to stay away from greed and not allow ourselves to cross over into the zone of greed.
End (4132).
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