Avarice

What do we want? We want an end to our suffering. How can this be achieved? I think self-observation helps a lot- we must become more self-aware.

We have a conditioned "ego" but we also have an authentic self, buried deep inside. By correct observation, we can reduce the conditioned ego and get at our true self. The ego is poisoned by the tumultous world, thus we make mistakes in our daily decision making. The real self beneath or behind the manufactured ego seeks wholeness. What we choose to do often is just our poisoned mind dictating the terms of the moment to us. Modernity and anomie war against the Paradise we can create in our lives.

Most people are sick. Listen to their conversations, their words. They want to drag you down, make you participate in their defeat. Whenever you are around such a person, and they launch into one of their tiresome tirades, just say to them "I have nothing to say to that." This is a way to put a brake upon their negative process.