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01/02/2006: "Life as we see it?"
For every life as a business man, politician, lawyer, doctor, aristrocrat, or scholar... you spend seven lives as a beggar.
I am done with petty materialism. You are born into this world with nothing, and you will take nothing when you leave. There is no point in creating false securities with the illusion of wealth. You have to go beyond the human created idea of currency. We have to become humans, not machines.
Everyone seems to lead the same path or similar paths. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college, grad school, job, retire, die. No wonder everyone dies young... 6 out of 8 of these key points and times in someones life are filled with incredible stress. People wonder why they age so quickly... wrinkles, age spots, drooping skin, loss of eyesight, memory... It is all because of the stress. It is better to be a poor beggar than a dead king.
So you went to the best elementary school, you graduated from the best prep-school, you went to the best private high school. You get your undergrad degree from the best state university, and you receive a phd from harvard. Are you happy? You spent 25 years of your life to get this PHD. Now you go get a job as a lawyer, and you make millions a year, are you happy? You worked and stressed yourself for all this time to achieve your goal of becoming rich. Now you are rich, what do you want to do next? You work for 40 years, and retire. Now you are 65. Are you happy? You have all the money in the world, but you are still old. No amount of money can reverse aging (yet?), you are destined to croak within 20 years. What can you do now? You go get botox injections, face lifts, eye tucks, but you still walk with a cane. All of this for the illusion of being young. All you can do now is wait and die. For 20 years you sit in your nice villa on a beach coast wondering where your life went. Then just how you came from nothingness, you enter the nothingness again. Are you happy? Are you glad? Did you satisfy your petty desires in life? And the ultimate question, are you content with what you have done?
Ron