Just to understand the nature of greed is enough to get rid of it. You are full if you are in tune with the universe; if you are not in tune with the universe, then you are empty, and out of that emptiness comes greed---greed is to fill it, with money, houses, furniture, with friends, lovers, with anything, because one cannot live as emptiness. You have to do something about coming into communion with the whole, so the inner emptiness disappears. With it, all greed disappears.
Greed is not desire, but inner emptiness.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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Reading List
- Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
- Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
- Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
- David Weeks: Eccentrics
- Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
- Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
- G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
- Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
- John Kekes: The Art of Life
- John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
- Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
- Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
- Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
- Osho: The Book of Understanding
- Osho: The Book of Wisdom
- P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
- P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
- Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
- Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
- Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
- Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- The Upanishads
- Xenophon: A History of My Time

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