Invincible Thinking by Ryuho Okawa

Author:Ryuho Okawa [Okawa, Ryuho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780982698532
Publisher: IRH Press (NBN)
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

3. The Creation of Wealth

1) Problems Connected to Having a Religious Disposition

The next theme I would like to discuss is the creation of wealth. There are a lot of people of a religious disposition who see money negatively, believing it is wrong for them to have wealth. This is true of followers of both Buddhism and Christianity.

The important point to consider here is that a person’s level of poverty depends on the degree to which he or she feels wealth is wrong. Someone who believes strongly that possessing wealth will make it impossible for them to enter heaven will never become rich. If that is all they believe, it is not such a big problem. However, if they envy those who are rich and begin to criticize them, they will create hell in their own hearts. This is an example of the disharmony that self-constraint can create.

If you simply have no desire for money or other forms of luxury and have no attachment to them, then this could be considered a virtue. However, if you start to castigate those who are affluent and tell them their wealth will banish them to hell, a dark smog will begin to cover your mind and you will create an inner hell for yourself. It may seem strange but that is the way it works. Once you begin to bind yourself by exhibiting a tendency to criticize others, you had better watch out.

Another similar example is the problems created by the opposite sex. Money and the opposite sex are both subjects that are frequently misunderstood by people of a religious disposition. There are even people who believe that if they marry they will be barred from heaven, and those who want to believe that this will happen. I do not know which is more common, but such people actually do exist.

2) Wealth as a Means to Happiness

To find a solution to the problem posed by wealth, you have to ask yourself why wealth exists. “Wealth” can refer to money or to other assets, but why does it exist?

The reason wealth exists in this world is as a way of expressing the “richness” that exists in the Real World. The Real World is not a poor place. Wealth takes a variety of forms and there is a law that states the pure in heart will receive whatever they wish for. The inhabitants of the Real World all live in purity so they are all prosperous. However, the way in which wealth is expressed in the Real World does not exist in the three-dimensional world, so people try and use money as a substitute means of expression. Of course, wealth does not necessarily have to be money, but money is a convenient form of expression.

The question is how money is used. In other words, good and evil in relation to wealth in this world are dependent on the motives and intentions of the user. For instance, if an organization wants to build a hall it will

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