Notes Related to Need and Greed - (5765)

Gnosis does not say to not buy this or that. All that it says is to truly know why we want that something. To know why does not mean to have or not to have, to buy or not buy.

Gnosis teaches that behind having or buying something there are always psychological reasons that too often go undetected.

When we 'know why' things often change or they may not, but the point is, we are conscious and we then can act consciosuly, and what we do won't be wasted.

What we buy in greed is usually wasted or not taken full advntage of...

Greed also becomes silly, as it does not serve a need. For example, a person may only have need for two cars but wants ten. Then when asked what are the ten cars for and the person replies, one for work, one for shopping, one for camping, one for going out, one for Sunday and so on...

To work for something and save over time for it is not greed, it is actually bliss. Having worked and saved for it means it was serving a need and was within our menas and brings joy in using it. Greed is about the excess and about wanting a lot right now. 

We are never buy the thing we buy the value that is implied in the thing. For example, a security system is really several plastic boxes and some cables. But we are not buying plastic and copper we are buying peace of mind, security, a better night's rest and so on. We always buy a value. 

To know why we buy things we must know the value we are really buying.

We are never attached to the thing but to our concpets of the thing.

It is such an amazing thing when we lose the concepts about the thing we lose the reasons to keep the thing and then we all of a sudden don't know why we still have it.

The cure for greed is in making our inner life entirely rich. Specifically rich in the values we are seeking to gain from the accumulation of outside things.

We want many external things because we lack inside of ourselves.

Greed is about having material things, but it has roots into other egos. For example, when it there is greed of time for ourselves it is selfishness, when it is greed for food it is gluttony, when it is greed for sexual sensations it is lust etc.  

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