Wealth: (that's what I want?)

The title of this essay and this conversation isn’t a declaration. It’s an inquiry.

If asked? What "true wealth" means, what would one say? Money, fame, respect, prestige, power, freedom, health? It certainly means different things to different people. The definition of wealth is personal. There is no right or wrong answer. It's an inquiry.

To some people, wealth is unceasingly going to mean money, but we can't all be wealthy in that way. Food and drink are basic necessities, ask for money themselves, and life doesn't go well without them. In the realm of prudent nutritional practices, eating the right element makes life work, and each of us has to nurture our bodies.

We have to step outside of that conversation to get what that is really about.

Give me food (that's what I want!); there's an obsession somewhere. The starving beggar and the exquisite cuisine overeater share the same predicament. The thirsty desert nomad and the connoisseur alcoholic share the same predicament.

No food, either from a street shop or from a famous fine dines restaurant, can in and of itself create a context for wholeness and completeness. No drink, either from an office water outlet or from a famed spring, can in and of itself create a context for wholeness and completeness.

If we look unconditionally, what's undistinguished is that we eat beyond eating because eating suppresses feelings of emptiness and incompletion. We drink beyond quenching thirst because drinking suppresses feelings of emptiness and incompletion.

Give us money (that’s what I want!); it is infectious & catchy. Take a look. What we want money to do. To be precise, we envision, having a pool of money will provide us contentment because money will suppress feelings of emptiness and incompletion.

The struggle is without already possessing wholeness and completeness, and there’ll never be enough money. It’s futile.

Excess of wealth in any mode or form doesn’t necessarily fulfill us. If it fulfilled, there’d be no unfulfilled wealthy people. If having money in the bank ever transformed the experience of being unfulfilled into an experience of being fulfilled, genuinely contented, and happy in a way that led to impact us and we make a difference.

Throughout this inquiry, we see again and again, who we are is not our wealth deposits. We are who we are, and our bank balance is our bank balance. To get along in the world as it’s set up today, we are necessitated as a matter of responsibility to manage our bank balance/wealth and make up new ways to replenish it. And we are equally necessitated as a matter of responsibility to distinguish ongoingly between money and our feelings for it and our reactions to it and our conversations about it―and who we really are.

We'll forget who we really are from time to time. As soon as we realize we've forgotten who we really are, we get it again. As soon as we get that, we don't get it, we got it again.

(That’s what I want): is to eat right; What we don’t want is the food like exquisite cuisine. What we want is to quench thirst; What we don’t want is a wine like famed booze. What we want is to be financially viable; what we don’t want is money, like another delusion. What we want is to discover how to serve and how to create rapid, transformed communication with everyone, and no one is left out.

The creation of our experience of our own completion and our own fulfillment is our responsibility and our responsibility alone. It doesn’t depend on or requires money/wealth.