what is money? Why do most people feel very uncomfortable about it in some way? This is a thorny issue, because money is not what it shows, money involves a deeper part, money is not just a superficial circulation tool, it is related to your inner mind and attitude. Money is your love of things, money is your escape from people, money is your safety in the face of death, money is your effort to control your life, money represents 1,111 things, and money is not just a tool for circulation, otherwise things will be much easier. Money is your love-your love of things, not your love of people. The most comfortable love is the love of things, because things are dead and you can easily have them. You can have a big house, or a palace, or even the biggest palace, but you can't have even the smallest baby, even the baby will refuse, and even the baby will fight for his own freedom. A baby, no matter how small he is, is very dangerous for a person who wants to possess it. He will resist, and he won't let anyone have him. Those who don't love others will begin to love money, because money is a tool to possess things. The more money you have, the more things you can have, and the more things you can have, the more you can forget people. You will have a lot of things, but you will not have any satisfaction, because only when you love someone can you have deep satisfaction. Money will not resist, but you will not have any satisfaction, because only when you love someone can you have deep satisfaction. Money won't resist, but it won't react, and that's the problem. That is why those stingy people become very ugly, because no one has ever responded to their love. How can you be beautiful if there is no love for you? How can you be beautiful if there is no love falling on you like a flower? You will be ugly, you will be closed. A person who has money or tries to have money is stingy, and he will always be afraid of people, because if you are close to people, you must start sharing. If you allow someone to be close to you, you must also allow some sharing. Those who love things will become like things-dead and closed, nothing vibrates in them, nothing sings and dances in them, their hearts have lost their beating, they live a mechanical life, they drag their lives along, they carry a lot of things, but they have no freedom, because only love can give you freedom; Only when you set love free can love set you free. Those who are afraid of love will want to have money, while those who can love will become possessive, and money will not be so important to them. If there is money, there is no problem, it can be used; If there is no money, there is no problem, because love itself is a kingdom that money can't buy. Love itself is a deep satisfaction. If there is love, it doesn't matter that you can be a beggar in the street. If there is love in your heart, you can sing; If you have love and are loved, then love can crown you and make you a king. Money will only make you ugly. I'm not against money. I'm not saying, "Take your money and throw it away." Because that's the other extreme, and this is the last step of stingy mind. A person who suffers a lot for money, a person who is obsessed with money and can't love anyone or open his heart, will feel very frustrated in the end and abandon all his money, abandon the secular world and go to the Himalayas to become a Lama in a monastery in Tibet. This kind of person just doesn't understand. If you can understand, money can be used, but those who don't understand either become misers and become unable to use money, or throw away all the money, because in throwing away, they also keep the same mind. In this way, there will be no difficulty in using this mind. You can abandon it all and run away, but they just can't use money, and they will feel afraid when using it. If a knowledgeable person has money, he will share it, because money does not exist for itself, it exists for life. If he feels that life needs it and love needs it, he can completely abandon it, but it is not a kind of abandonment, and he is also using it. For him, love is the goal, money is never the goal, and money is just a tool. However, for those who pursue money, money is the goal, and love becomes just a tool. Even their prayers are for money, and even prayers become tools to get money. Money is a very complicated phenomenon. Why do people invest in it so much and why do so many people pursue it? It's really attractive, it's really magnetic. Money has a hypnotic attraction, and that attraction is that you can have it completely. Money is very obedient, it can become your slave, and you can feel very satisfied. However, love is not so obedient, love is rebellious, and you can't possess love. You can have a woman, you can have a man, but you can never have love If you possess a woman, that woman becomes money or something; If you possess a man, that man becomes money, or a thing or a tool. Only when a person exists for himself, not as a tool for anything else, can a man be regarded as a man and a woman as a woman. Money is a tool, and clinging to tools is the biggest stupidity and the biggest curse that can happen to a person. Money shouldn't be a goal, but I'm not saying you have to abandon it and become a beggar-use it, it's a good tool. I am not against money. I have nothing against it. I am talking about you and your possession, not about money. If you don't possess it, if you don't cling to it, it can be beautiful. Money is like blood circulating in the body; Money circulates in the body of society, which is equivalent to blood. It helps the society to become richer and more alive, just like blood. You must have heard about the disease that blood clots can't circulate. Blood clots block blood vessels and make the blood in your body unable to circulate. Then you are paralyzed. If that blood clot blocks your heart, you will die. If money can circulate, from one person's hand to another's, and continue to flow, the faster the better, then the blood can circulate well and the body will become very healthy. But when a miser comes in, he becomes a blood clot; Someone somewhere is accumulating, and if he doesn't share it, he becomes a blood clot in the blood circulation. That person will disturb the whole system. Not only does he not have a good life, but because of his hindrance, others are also adversely affected by him, and money stops circulating. Blood circulation is life, and when blood stops or is blocked, it is death; Money circulation is life. If money stops or is blocked, it is death. One must have money, make money, and then use it. A person has money just to use it, while a person uses it just to have it. It becomes a cycle, and then a person becomes both, both a stingy person and a vulgar person. When you are both a stingy person and a vulgar person, you are neither. You are just enjoying what any money can give. Money can give many things, and money can't give many things. When you use it, you will know what money can give. There is nothing wrong with the fact that money can give all external things-things in this world. There is nothing wrong with having a beautiful house and a beautiful garden. Money can give you these things, but money can't give you love. If you ask it to give you love, then you expect too much from this poor money. One should only expect what can be expected, and one should not enter the impossible. When you ask poor money for your love, poor money can't do it, but there's nothing wrong with it. Don't be angry with money! Don't burn it, or throw it into the river and run to the Himalayas. You're asking for something that a knowledgeable person would never ask for. It's stupid of you to do so, that's all. There's nothing wrong with money. People with mental disorders will go from one extreme to the other. Using money, in terms of what money can do, it is beautiful, and it can do enough! As far as mundane things are concerned, it can do enough, but don't expect love, because it belongs to the inner nature, and don't ask God, because he is beyond. Use everything according to its performance, not according to your dreams, then you are a healthy person. Being healthy means being sacred. Don't be abnormal, be normal and ordinary, as long as you have a little more understanding, so that you can see clearly. Money can be used, it should be used, it can give you a beautiful world. Otherwise, if you are against money, sooner or later you will create a dirty country like India. In India, everything is dirty, but they think they are great spiritualists, and everything becomes ugly. But they think they are great spiritualists, because they have abandoned customs, so the situation becomes very bad. They think one must close his eyes and not look outside. It is good to look at the outside, because the outside is God's creation; It is good to look inside, because the creator lives inside. Both of them are good. Eyes need to be opened and closed. They should not be open all the time, nor should they be closed all the time. They need to blink-open and close, open and close, that is a rhythm-external and internal; Externally and internally. Looking out, there are beautiful creations there; Look inside, there is a beautiful god there. Gradually, you will be able to understand that the inside and the outside can meet and blend together, and they are one.