Why do you live for more when you can have more with less? Often we want more, work overtime or clock long hours a week and end up having less time, less at peace and yet having not enough of money, because then the tendency is to splurge and live up to the financial power to make up for the precious little time left to live with family and kin between work and sleep.
Why go for more when you can have more with less. Let this be food for thought.
Gautama have more by having less. He left as prince to be pauper and ascetic begging on the streets but leading the spiritual life. He could not reconcile why the royalty could live in luxury at the expense of the suffering public. Why all, be they rich or poor, end up sick old and with nothing not even their own life towards the end. This was bewildering and did not make sense.
He gave up everything and went for nothing, living on roots, hoping to achieve immortality but then he wasted away his body. This too did not make sense.
So he realized that there is need to meet ample needs of flesh and blood, to be down to earth and live the simple life of man.
Doing thus, he was better able to have health and better poised to meditate and to have divine peace.
He became a Buddha by having more with less. In fact, he had more than more. He had perfection by having less.
When he had more as a prince, he was far from being at peace but when he went for nothing or broke, he was not at peace as well. By going for less and just enough to have the simple life, he was able to be Buddha.
He had more with less. So in life, why go for more when you can have more with less. But please do not go for nothing.
Lead the simple life. Know what you need and want. Why go for more when you can have more with less. If, for instance, you can live comfortably and at peace with half the income, why not.
Live within means and lead the simple and balanced life and be happy. This principle works for both spiritual and worldly life.
So let us remember this. Why go for more when you can have more with less. Cheers and God bless.
Let us go to the life of Ji Gong to understand further on this principle.
Ji Gong the Living Buddha gave up the monastic life. He gave up trying to please men and monks by living up to the vinaya rules of monks that was then the expectations of men and monks at that time.
He was considered a disgrace and was expelled but in leaving the monastery and being with society, he end up perfecting his spiritual development. He became a saint.
He may have less by being out of monastery but he did however end up having more than more by being enlightened with less and becoming a saint to help the masses. He too have more than more by having less.
He was expelled from the monastery but by having less, he end up having more than more. He ended up with perfection of sainthood.
We may not be monks but we too can upkeep this principle. It pays to be not greedy and to seek the simple solution to life. If with life as it is you end up having less with more, why not rethink and re-arrange your life. Have more with less. This is the formula to solve life both spiritual and mundane.
Work-life balance in corporate work culture deals with the same principle. We can have more with less and less with more may often be the case.
The message of why go for more when we can have more with less is personified too in the image of Lord Bo Tien with feet on two extremes. There must be balance between having too much of e.g. work and having none. The balance depends on the individual's circumstances Thus the image too echoes the message of why go for more when you can have more with less.
Why go for more when you can have more with less. Let this be food for thought.
Gautama have more by having less. He left as prince to be pauper and ascetic begging on the streets but leading the spiritual life. He could not reconcile why the royalty could live in luxury at the expense of the suffering public. Why all, be they rich or poor, end up sick old and with nothing not even their own life towards the end. This was bewildering and did not make sense.
He gave up everything and went for nothing, living on roots, hoping to achieve immortality but then he wasted away his body. This too did not make sense.
So he realized that there is need to meet ample needs of flesh and blood, to be down to earth and live the simple life of man.
Doing thus, he was better able to have health and better poised to meditate and to have divine peace.
He became a Buddha by having more with less. In fact, he had more than more. He had perfection by having less.
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| Gautama Buddha |
When he had more as a prince, he was far from being at peace but when he went for nothing or broke, he was not at peace as well. By going for less and just enough to have the simple life, he was able to be Buddha.
He had more with less. So in life, why go for more when you can have more with less. But please do not go for nothing.
Lead the simple life. Know what you need and want. Why go for more when you can have more with less. If, for instance, you can live comfortably and at peace with half the income, why not.
Live within means and lead the simple and balanced life and be happy. This principle works for both spiritual and worldly life.
So let us remember this. Why go for more when you can have more with less. Cheers and God bless.
Let us go to the life of Ji Gong to understand further on this principle.
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| Ji Gong too had more than more by having less |
Ji Gong the Living Buddha gave up the monastic life. He gave up trying to please men and monks by living up to the vinaya rules of monks that was then the expectations of men and monks at that time.
He was considered a disgrace and was expelled but in leaving the monastery and being with society, he end up perfecting his spiritual development. He became a saint.
He may have less by being out of monastery but he did however end up having more than more by being enlightened with less and becoming a saint to help the masses. He too have more than more by having less.
He was expelled from the monastery but by having less, he end up having more than more. He ended up with perfection of sainthood.
We may not be monks but we too can upkeep this principle. It pays to be not greedy and to seek the simple solution to life. If with life as it is you end up having less with more, why not rethink and re-arrange your life. Have more with less. This is the formula to solve life both spiritual and mundane.
Work-life balance in corporate work culture deals with the same principle. We can have more with less and less with more may often be the case.
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| The image of Lord Bo Tien echoes the message of why go for more when we can have more with less |
The message of why go for more when we can have more with less is personified too in the image of Lord Bo Tien with feet on two extremes. There must be balance between having too much of e.g. work and having none. The balance depends on the individual's circumstances Thus the image too echoes the message of why go for more when you can have more with less.
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