Money, Freedom, Love, Obsession and Security
Osho speaks about Money
Money should not become the goal, but I am not saying at the same time that you should renounce it and become beggars — use it, it is a good means. I’m not against money, I have nothing to say against it. I am saying something about you and your possessiveness, not about money.
Money can be beautiful — if it is not possessed, if you don’t become obsessed with it. It can be beautiful. Money is like blood circulating in the body: in the body of society money circulates, it is blood. It helps society to be enriched, to be alive — but it is like blood.
Money is not just there outside in the currency notes, it is something to do with your inner mind and attitudes. Money is your love of things, money is your escape from persons, money is your security against death, money is your effort to control life, money is a thousand and one things. Money is not just in the currency notes otherwise things would have been very easy.
Money is your love — love of things, not of persons. The most comfortable love is of things because things are dead, you can possess them easily. You can possess a big house, a palace — the greatest palace you can possess easily — but you cannot possess even the smallest baby; even that baby rejects, even that baby fights for his freedom. A small baby, howsoever small, is dangerous for the man who wants to possess. It will rebel, it will become rebellious, but it will not allow anybody to possess it.
People who cannot love persons start loving money because money is a means to possess things. The more money you have, the more things you can possess; and the more things you can possess, the more you can forget about persons. You will have many things but you will not have any contentment because deep contentment comes only when you love a person. The money will not revolt but it cannot respond also, that is the trouble. That’s why miserly people become…
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