When you are paralyzed by greed, you forget your shame

When you are paralyzed by greed, you forget your shame. 


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"Those who are hungry eat sweet, and those who are thirsty drink sweet. At this time, the original taste of eating and drinking cannot be known. Because hunger and thirst spoil the taste. How can only the mouth and stomach suffer from hunger and thirst like this? There is the same year. If a person does not hurt his heart with hunger and thirst, he does not worry about falling short of others." - Mencius


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It is not just a matter of eating and drinking, but the same problem arises in the human mind as well.


Hunger and thirst harm the body, but it is the hunger and thirst for wealth that harms the mind.


When hunger and thirst impair our sense of taste, we think that food is sweet, even if it is not. If selfishness harms the nature of benevolence, even if it is not right to do it, you will think it is right.


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The runner thought that he was deceiving himself by losing his original taste due to hunger and thirst. so is the mind. If greed and greed harm the heart of 'righteousness', it becomes a self-deception that does not even realize one's own faults.


Self-deception occurs in order to report oneself from guilt, shame, or contempt for one's own faults or immorality. It is to avoid recognizing one's own shame by not thinking of mistakes. Self-deception is also aimed at deceiving others rather than self. In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.


It's not just about doing something and complaining that you didn't do it because you're interested in it, it's about thinking that you didn't really do it. People who lie so naturally that they are so yellow are often deeply deceived.


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Self-deception can be caused by various factors, but the biggest cause is the excessive pursuit of profit. When you lose your heart to lust and covetousness, you deceive others as well as yourself. An ever-growing greed makes them uncontrollable to the point of destruction. That is why people's greed for profit is strong.



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“First of all, in the case of water, the limit of a well is until the water is dry. In the case of wealth, the limit is when wealth is sufficient. . The limit of wealth is ruin."


When asked if Prince Huan of Qi had a limit to his wealth, Myeong Jae-sang answered the audience.


The greed of those who pursue wealth is not satisfied no matter how much they fill it, so they draw water from the well until it dries up, and eventually let it dry out. In the end, just as a well dries up and becomes useless, so too do people come to ruin. As such, a person's greed for wealth itself is fatal, but it is because of the heart that compares with other people who are close to each other. I can't stand it myself because of a sense of comparison that can't stand the people around me have more than me.


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You cannot condemn the desire for wealth and the desire to be better than others. But it shouldn't be so bad that it hurts the mind. At this time, in order to keep the mind, it is necessary to have a standard that can control and restrain oneself. That is the shame of my heart.


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"There is no shame in a person. If he is ashamed that he has no shame, there is nothing to be ashamed of." - Mencius


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Shame is to listen carefully to the voice of your heart.


If I feel ashamed of my secret heart that no one knows about, it is shameful.

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