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Other side of money charm
MoneyLike it. He hates. Want It Now. It wastes. But you can not ignore. What is the value of money, that crumpled piece of paper printed in the wallet, that the arc of the world can be? The secret lies in your own mind!
Around the money! Mammon the embodiment of the earth. Satan of the weapon of temptation. The capitalism of free expression. We are talking about a piece of paper, right? A draw scrap of wood from Goo, which not even walk, a glass of water when they used to trade on the basis of actual value.
So, what does the checkbox money? We love that we condemn. We will all be preserved, as far as we can, we are consultants for a temptation! We live with her and the realization of our dreams to him, nor the first to say: “Money can not buy everything.” Why?
But then how do you assess the value of something that is itself worth at least trade matters? Money is for the capitalist exploitation of weapons? Or the touch-evaluation and reward our abilities?
It is perhaps true that we do with the few people who are actually the masters of money and its philosophical and ethical value.
Value for value
“The money,” wrote Ayn Rand, author of controversial cult propounder and the philosophy of objectivism is a tool for the exchange, can not exist unless there are goods and men in the situation of the produce. The money is from the hardware that men who require treatment with the other must be through trade and increase the value for value. ”
The motto is “value”. And, perhaps, faith in a promise on a piece of paper. In this sense, money and trade recognizes the conviction that nothing in the world is free. As always: We want to be won. Thus, if AB wants, or what the usufruct is in a position to give, then A, B, to something of value. Rand believes that only those who do not want to condemn the trade in money. Who wanted to test what others have focused their efforts and capacities.
“The money served as a means of exchange, after you have tried a variety of other elements that have been found standard,” explains NK Soman, CMD of Shree Vindhya Paper Mills Ltd, Mumbai. “Every person needs products and services in life. The role money plays a recognized value for the exchange of goods and services. If there is no universally accepted unit for these measures would be the lawlessness in the world.”
Money rand went further by the money that the means of subsistence. “The money is the source of survival,” writes Atlas Shrugged. “The verdict of you, whether the source of your livelihood is the verdict you express in your life.” Perhaps it makes sense, the question arises as to why the money still attracts so many reviewers. Why is it that most people are reluctant to say they love the money? What is it taboo to all? When is a simple tool to replace a metamorphosis into an ambivalent unity, both a source of shame and joy?
“The man who dishonorably damn money, the man who won it,” says bravely Ayn Rand.
The money is bad?
Do you remember your first pay check? And the pride they feel when they something? How would you feel if someone has pointed out that he wrongly to love money? Proud that you have the feeling that it was wrong?
A large part of this negative image came from a misinterpretation of Scripture from the major organized religions, especially Christianity and Hinduism Brahminical. Wealth, costing the earlier popes, was a sin, if they have not accumulated a “pious wish” end. Surrender was the word, poverty and the goal of austerity measures Norm of the day. If you do not have these practices, you’re a sinner is, has declared that the French like an animal, when at least one Hindu, or will the grill in the fire of hell, if a Christian. However, it was a simple solution. Should we just give money to religious institutions and God’s eyes to how you win your wealth.
As Canadian Nathan Lester wrote: “Here you see a model? Religion condemns the money and then takes 10 percent of our revenue!”
But the truth of the Bible was very far from this bribe-God-is-happy picture. Notes and financial advisers America is a source of inspiration Author J. Grady cash in his book is based on the values of Money Management: “Money is not bad. The biblical quotation, which leads to this idea is” for the love of money is the root of everything Evil “. Aramaic, the ancient text to translate accurately with” the thirst for money is the root of all evil. “It is perfectly acceptable to make more money. Only when the money in his own interest or their accumulation of money does not hurt others too bad. ”
MoneyDitto in Hinduism. Artha, or wealth, is entitled to the money is on the current state of society. A man in the world without money is a mistake, he can not keep body and soul together. Indeed, following an order of Hinduism, for the first time the body and the next practice of religion. Moreover, the money for the construction of hospitals, schools, museums and educational institutions, between a civilized society from a primitive one. The money is there to leisure, a key factor in the creation of culture. But the money is that the Dharma, otherwise they will be humiliated the people, by his greedy and ruthless.
The fundamental question, therefore is not whether the money is bad, but when it was purchased, ethics.
The ethics of wealth
Despite this knowledge, many of us still speak of fear. As New Age guru Deepak Chopra says: “Most people find it difficult to tell someone exactly how much money they do. That is because they believe it is worthwhile that they win.”
Why is this so? U.S. journalist Marjorie Kelly tries to answer this question in his article “Are you too rich, if the others are poor?” (Utne Reader, Sept / Oct 1992): “One of our unconscious, but the convictions about the money, it is a zero sum game, and only for one more person has less resources than another. Nutshell, that the wealth is on the back of the poor. But here there is a hypothesis which only partially true is that the money that is a natural can be moved on a lot of balls. I think the truth is that the money has a dual nature. In Because if the zero-sum theory of truth Part of the money, the other part is: prosperity can lead to prosperity. ”
John Stussel money to host the Formula 20/20 TV show episode of the U.S. on the positive side of greed, it exactly: “Bill Gates is a good example. It is now one of the richest men in the world. He has around 40 billion Dollars. But after $ 40 billion means the rest of us have $ 40 billion? No. ”
After Stussel, in a trade economy, even if a person is greedy prosperity, it can not give others. “If you put your money, he has to convince you, motivate you. To achieve this, you must do something that you like to give him money. All trade both sides benefit. Take for example simple. I have a glass of milk from a farmwoman. I have eaten into U.S. dollars, it gives me the milk. We both have advantages because they wanted the dollar more than the milk, and I wanted more milk than the dollar. ”
Piparaiya Ram, president, Hitech Aridhi Industries, Mumbai is: “Money is not corruption. It depends on the user. Venal corrupt they are.” There has, however, believe that those who do not win, but earn money Especially on lotteries and gambling may be corrupted by the will.
BR Tangra, Principal (PR) in the Oriental Bank of Commerce, New Delhi, has a point blank in the debate: “How can the money badly? Finally, you can without money?”
In fact, the idea that money corrupts itself is questionable. The money, actually, is a possibility of the exchange. And the person who has more money has a greater power to dictate the terms of trade. Now we have all heard that “power corrupts”. But corruption can all? What is with great leaders who have the power to the story, yet with integrity and wisdom? Then should not take responsibility for not corrupt is the person and not the object of temptation?
“A knife can be used by terrorists or by a surgeon can operate,” agrees Soman. “Bofors arms can be used to defend their country or in a subcontractor. The question whether the money corrupts or not depends on the attitude and character.”
“Your attitude towards money,” explains Pradhyot Somaiya, with the administration Davnet Telecommunications in Sydney, has a discussion about the position in relation to your life. Some people see how the money is a means to an end, as some exercise, an instrument of power, some as an end in themselves think that they are lucky. A person who provides the money only a means to meet the needs to be relaxed and sympathetic that, is something money for the provision of self-esteem, the Security or power. ”
Money May ten yachts buy five houses and delight. But as the cliche goes, it really can not buy you happiness. Or self-awareness to this issue. If you are running after money to find what you can not find where you’re hunting on a mirage that you no longer lost.
The right attitude
MoneySo May, which is the right attitude towards money? Joan Sotkin, source of inspiration and creative teacher www.prosperityplace.com, views of human interaction money than any other form of relationship and argues that the laws for all other healthy relationship is also the attitude toward money. “Your personal relationship with the money,” she says, “is comparable to your relationship with yourself and others. In other words, using the money to the same extent as you and with you the other. Their development of financial relations the same route as the energy and the rest of your life. ”
“The money,” says Somaiya, “is necessary to my life. My money easily, but that’s not the only reason for my happiness. Happiness comes from inside of me. The money is an indicator of the success of the practice, but not in my car – value. ”
The general attitude towards money is, however, double-click, we are forever running after berating or are employed, our destiny for us retaining the difference of more than this. The grapes are sour on forever, and yet we have to jump the highest, per group. Few of us who are able to break this vicious circle through which a good relationship with money.
In his book, you see, if you believe, Dr. Wayne Dyer warns against this occurs:”If we have a mentality of scarcity, “he said,” that means that we in the rarity that we assess our lives in relation to defect. The theme of so many people’s life is “I just do not have enough”, or “I would be much happier if I …” The people believe they live a life shortage, because they are unhappy, rather than to recognize that their belief system is deep in thought rarity. Nevertheless, as long as they live with the mentality of the defect, which attract what they are in their lives. ”
Most trainers personal growth, however, emphasize that this attitude is easily solved. Everything he needed a change in the methods of thinking in terms of the money. , Said John McMurphy, author of Living consciously: “The money is just a state of mind, not in reality, or for themselves if the money is still a state of mind, a spiritual reality and not an end in itself, while always what you really they need and deserve. ”
Easier said than done, you can snort. Finally, it is not bad, if you see other, less efforts to make money, but that you have more success. Perhaps you can think about what it is that the success of people to reach where they are.
Success V / S Silver
Whether we like it or not, in most cases the success as a function of a person of the bank accounts. In a consumer economy, a passion for marketing ideas, concepts or products is a long way to make money, as well as in hardware will be crowned with success. “If you do not sell what you produce,” Lester asks, “Why should you produce?”
For this reason, today, even the spiritual leaders and healers need to advertise their unique abilities, because the most successful are those where it succeeds, a large number of people. After all, how a person sits in Timbuktu, where you for something esoteric that even Rudraksha therapy, if not through advertising?
The MoneyDespite, it would be a mistake to read how successful a synonym for the money. Although the two often go hand in hand, the money itself can not be a success, and vice versa. Take A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former director of India Research for the Protection and Development Organization. A simple man who came from a not-so-good-to-family, nobody can deny that it is a success. But who is interested to know how much money he? What makes it a success is his intelligence and the results.
What about the ways, from all for something intangible? They were less than a success? The Buddha had more success if he was still with his palace and wealth?
Rare is the money value of a person in the truest sense of the word. In an ideal world, money change hands and ethics would earn money that you directly proportional to your ability. In the real world, money is often the result of the line, contacts, links unethical or operation, so that the respect that he must at the request of the ideal circumstances, it is cut.
Ambition and greed?
In the 80s, Gordon Gecko, a broker in securities reptiles brilliantly played by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone movie Wall Street, greed and out: “The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, greed, the lack of ‘a better word , Is a good thing. Greed is right. … The work Greed greed the essence of the spirit to develop. “Whether we like it or not, in the world d ‘Today, Gecko could indicate a self-evident. Greed is the word in the Oxford English Dictionary as “exaggerated or intense longing, especially for the richness or the food, greed, greed desire.” It is the desire unimpeded fullness and richness, the development of the material possible. At least in regard to the exchange. If we wanted no money, we would have had in the first place?
But even if one accepts the argument of the Gecko as in fact true, May it not ethically correct. How N.K. Sohal, the retired as manager of the Bank Hong Kong, India, North wrote: “The money is functional because the life they support. The people have some basic requirements. Once these are met, then we will begin to think of comfort . I do not condemn, because someone who works very hard, is entitled to a series of comfort. But beyond everything falls into the category of greed. ”
“A person who wants the money,” says Canada is based Adarsh Jain, a professor of philosophy, “he wants for a particular purpose. Gourmets If you are interested in you always, regardless of how many of you. And the n ‘ has nothing to do with your currency or social status. A millionaire gourmets can also be employed every day. ”
In fact, in a policy of the biggest science irony, the two concepts of communism and socialism, born desire for a reversal of predatory capitalism has also on the profit motive in their practical application.
The money “The government,” said Nathan Newman, “the transfer of wealth for the companies in the indirect in the society and paid training for workers who take care of their employees when they are sick, the transit – for the maintenance of the system and offers a variety of public goods provided by public funds. It is a transfer of wealth that is not purely a zero-sum game, but it raises the whole question of whether people are on average their share of the market. ”
Especially in! It is a topic that remains in the culture every time we the money. Somewhere, a fair share is often equal parts average, where, regardless of your skills, you benefit so that each.
“Why is it,” asks us to software designers, Tony, “that people should be aware of what others have won? Is not it against the basis of religion to covet? But why should be a” not “interested What a “have” has? And that’s not the greed of the basis of communism and the social philosophy? ”
Gecko equated with greed, ambition, with the desire to better your own car. Indeed, there is a subtle difference between the two, and you can easily be changed in the other. The difference in most cases is located in the mobile phone. Dan Sullivan, a U.S. personal growth trainer, notes: “The focus is the desire for more, but greed is the desire for more at the expense of others. Ambition is rational and, of course, but the ‘profit motive is a product of Fear. Do not worry, there is no greed. ”
So, if you do not want the money to her, you remain free of greed in spite of being in the race. But if the money you can dictate your life, you will be enslaved, and in the end only one, the money begins to rule you.
Trade with the love
While on one side of the spectrum of money, there is a struggle between ambition and greed, on the other side of the trade is trying to reach an agreement with love. We have a number of Indian businessmen and entrepreneurs, when the philanthropy or love for the question of money. The answer was unanimous that the charity is an essential part of earning money and successful. How KV Krishnamurti, President of the Bank of India, Mumbai, said categorically: “The philanthropy is definitely the money. If the money is spent for the promotion of the poor, it can be won without limit output. The universal law of nature” Give and take. “That you give, the more you get.”
Would that this love is also a goal of emoluments?
Money There is a school of thought believes that the love, a personal question, if you want to go and do. “It is not a question of whether love brings more money or not,” explains Somaiya. “A philanthropist May treat, as the welfare undertakings and money where it chances for a return. In this case, it is not a philanthropist. Altruism, by definition, is an activity without the return of the material.”
As Roy Davies, a librarian at the University of Exeter, England, he said: “In the ideal case, the philanthropy nothing to do with the acquisition of money.”
Lester is in sarcasm on this issue. “I suppose that love does not pay,” he says. “Ask the rich philanthropists like they have become. There are many of them, so I paid it well.”
Charité-paying agent. It pays like a good deed they are no longer good in tow. But for the pursuit of love, because he paid? Does not seem like cricket, it is today?
The spirit of money
Then, to what extent the money is our life? Is there something beyond money?
Also interesting that he two opposing theories heavily in the money as a basis for the exchange, with which we are all affected, and the money that the temptation in which the least we must do it with, the better. How can the two?
With the money, the things that seem fair play from the viewpoint of ethics, in suspected areas in which other viewpoints. In fact, the problem lies not with the money for all, it is our view. At its base, which is the money? A piece of paper, a card, a piece of plastic, a thump on the number of exchange. That is all. Nothing more and nothing less.
The person who has considerable assets through hard work, and the person who all have a look the same platform from a spiritual perspective. Both are following their dharma. But that money plays an insignificant role in terms of their mental development, because the money is the result, not the source for their views about life.
“The money does not define us,” says Tom. “We define, which means that the money is.” And as long as our life is a dependency of our swadharma the accuracy of the measure innate, that is born, with the money we earn is not just profit but also contribute to a better and flourish.
The enigma of money is a creation of our own spirit. So why did it in the trap? It is May as too much a cliché, but we are the masters of money. Do you think that you and the money from short-and curl!
5 changes money, more money
Living with a check to the other is depressing and frustrating and it feel like it is a situation that never come to an end. However, it is ultimately about you, the shift to more changes in your portfolio. Sometimes these small changes in our thinking and our way of life that help us, a life without guilt.
Here are 5 things that you can change, and now there are only a few steps closer to live without guilt.
Make the transition from the credit card debit card
When people accustomed to spending on credit, even if they had faced difficulties the obligations of payment or get themselves in trouble with the spending. In determining the fair use of your credit card and debit card placement of purchase, you are instantly more for your money and can generally not exceed. With your debit card, it is necessary that the money in the bank, and therefore you need to keep an eye on what you give.
Creating a visual financial
Considering you have a vision aid, as a match your budget and your spending writing with pen and ink, you can create a better understanding of the place where your money is underway and we can save you. If you’re not writing something, you’re not aware that the money you there. You think you May-number may be outside the top of your head – but maybe you have wrong. Keep a notebook specifically for your financial information, including your budget. Sometimes to see it to believe really.
Take part in the reduction of debt and save
While most people can find at least $ 5 or $ 10 for hiding in a savings account every week, there will certainly be difficult, a real savings plan, while still your fault. Instead of money for a great effort on a savings plan, which this energy in the mapping of your way to opt out of any debt. For example, every time you pay a debt in its entirety, that the payment and the transfer on account of the debt until you have to be paid, and so forth … . Then, when you’re free from guilt, the size of a savings for all “remnants” of money you were with the guilt.
Be careful when you buy
If you will be able to decipher between your desires and needs, you may be able to get a better grip on the reduction of costs and your debts. Take your notebook with you at least once noted, and the trends for the purchase of impulse and attention, how often you from the list.
Forget about watching Jones
If your time to ask what the neighbors have, that your sister just bought, or what your friends have that you do not – you can about your own financial disaster. Your finances are endless and you can not always live like the people around you – at least for the moment. You have to be paid as debt and make your money, you will be able to live as you want at a certain time on the road, but at the moment, it is wiser to avoid the impulse to the development of these boring Jones.