Philosophy: Money, spirituality and an attempt at clarity
As I see more and more countries, there is slowly a frightening feeling that people's greatest motivations are the #geld is. Man seems to be trapped in a never-ending machine called a monetary system. Whatever country you visit, money comes to the forefront; India, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Spain or France. The animal survival mechanism holds us hostage within the limits of our conceptual reality. Reality consisting of carefully constructed and recurring 'thought systems' and beliefs. What is the right way to deal with this? Is money just energy that flows in the form of matter and manifests things that are bubbling up in our minds? I do not want to build a philosophy around this, rather to find a practical approach to the perpetual issue that affects many people.
Once upon a time there was a wise man whose name I don't remember who said: People are strange creatures, first they work half their lives to gain money and prosperity. In the course of this work, their health deteriorates, and then they spend their accumulated wealth to recover the lost health. The same health they lost in the rat race to get the money and prosperity.
It is not exactly the literal takeover of that quote, simply because I did not find its author on the Internet. I posted it here to make an idea clear. Things that now appear on the screen serve first and foremost to encourage the reader to think and introspection. If there is a common thread in this kind of blogs, that's it.
At this point, I think that money is mainly the result and not the cause of things. Through your education, thinking and the growth that you make as a human being, you eventually attract the resources you need to provide your livelihood. Take, for example, an application procedure in India. If you apply in that country to work in a hotel (although in the tourist areas), the first thing they ask is your knowledge of English. An Indian must have at least a basic knowledge in order to be admitted to this 'hotel sector'. Don't get me wrong I generalized a little, yet I think the people who know the language are in the favor. The chances of them sending you out if you don't know English are much bigger anyway. In other words no knowledge —> no job —> no money —> no possibility of further self-development.
