The poor are motivated to be able to afford food they need money for this they are motivated by the need to eat money is simply a means to an ends.
The middle class are motivated by comfort and ironically will work very hard to achieve this. Once again money is the means to this ends.
The rich are motivated by power and influence and will do anything to achieve this. Again money is the means not the ends.
To not be motivated by money one must become the Buddha. To not want money one must want for nothing that money can purchase but by its very definition it can purchase anything. So one must want for nothing and thus have achieved nirvana. I doubt someone who has achieved nirvana would find themselves working a dead end job.
A Buddha is the correct way to say that, and you don’t just throw away all desires, permenantly. Desires still come, but is in unentangling yourself from your karmic fetters that allows one to be unattached from their desires. To want nothing is to be dead. Buddhas still have wants. Negative thoughts come, but they go just as quickly, and in developing one’s inner world, their unconscious mind catches most unuseful percolations to the surface.
There is a story about Mara, which is kinda, sorta “the Buddhist devil” in a trickster sort of way, yet is also an enlightened being, who once possessed a child and threw a rock at an arhant’s head while he was walking in jhana meditation behind the Buddha. The rock hit his head and drew blood, and from the outsider’s perspective, it looks as if the arhant is unphased, but there was a microsecond of the feeling and the cascade of processes within him.
The thing is, enlightenment involves, in modern terms, developing one’s prefrontal cortex to predict the animal part of the brain and cut it off at the pass, so to speak. So, even before the rock finished impacting him, the arhant would have unconsciously quieted the parts of him that are inclined to react.
Also, you don’t “achieve” Nirvana, as that implies personally accomplishing some feat, when it is really a process akin to entering a stream and being carried to a place you see what you need to see to understand the entanglement process of Karma.
Likewise, someone who has been awakened to the emptiness inside them would absolutely work a dead-end job if they knew there was merit to it. A Buddha is a perfect spy, for instance, for they would be able to do the highest or lowest job or task required of them to complete their mission, peacefully and skillfully.
This is my poem, a lipogram using only A and E vowels, entitled Nervana:
Nobody is motivated by money.
The poor are motivated to be able to afford food they need money for this they are motivated by the need to eat money is simply a means to an ends.
The middle class are motivated by comfort and ironically will work very hard to achieve this. Once again money is the means to this ends.
The rich are motivated by power and influence and will do anything to achieve this. Again money is the means not the ends.
To not be motivated by money one must become the Buddha. To not want money one must want for nothing that money can purchase but by its very definition it can purchase anything. So one must want for nothing and thus have achieved nirvana. I doubt someone who has achieved nirvana would find themselves working a dead end job.
A Buddha is the correct way to say that, and you don’t just throw away all desires, permenantly. Desires still come, but is in unentangling yourself from your karmic fetters that allows one to be unattached from their desires. To want nothing is to be dead. Buddhas still have wants. Negative thoughts come, but they go just as quickly, and in developing one’s inner world, their unconscious mind catches most unuseful percolations to the surface.
There is a story about Mara, which is kinda, sorta “the Buddhist devil” in a trickster sort of way, yet is also an enlightened being, who once possessed a child and threw a rock at an arhant’s head while he was walking in jhana meditation behind the Buddha. The rock hit his head and drew blood, and from the outsider’s perspective, it looks as if the arhant is unphased, but there was a microsecond of the feeling and the cascade of processes within him.
The thing is, enlightenment involves, in modern terms, developing one’s prefrontal cortex to predict the animal part of the brain and cut it off at the pass, so to speak. So, even before the rock finished impacting him, the arhant would have unconsciously quieted the parts of him that are inclined to react.
Also, you don’t “achieve” Nirvana, as that implies personally accomplishing some feat, when it is really a process akin to entering a stream and being carried to a place you see what you need to see to understand the entanglement process of Karma.
Likewise, someone who has been awakened to the emptiness inside them would absolutely work a dead-end job if they knew there was merit to it. A Buddha is a perfect spy, for instance, for they would be able to do the highest or lowest job or task required of them to complete their mission, peacefully and skillfully.
This is my poem, a lipogram using only A and E vowels, entitled Nervana: