There are many forces surrounding us that encourage us to follow along unthinkingly wherever our greed leads us. We are bombarded by advertising designed to convince us that our happiness depends on material goods. Today’s global culture tells us that having more of these goods is a measure of our success in life, and even of our value as a person. This message comes at us in many forms and from many directions, so we need a clear awareness of how greed works in order to protect ourselves from being deceived by these forces. We can then counteract them with inner wisdom about where real success and personal value come from.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan
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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Interdependent reality
- The Wealth of Contentment
- Social action
- Life in Balance
- Just Love
- Boxing Love with Our Expectations
- Nothing is intrinsically bad
- There are no fixed starting points
- Difference without Division
- Healthy relationships
- Breaking barriers
- Take joy in your sincere intentions
- Just not been introduced before
- Finding our nobility of heart
- Authentic love toward others
- Expanding our sense of ourselves
- There are no fixed starting points
- Our life is vast
- Open-minded