Border Between Need and Greed

Now through the way of physical negation(penance), you will find that desire for need never disappears. As long as we are bound to life, the least desire for existence must remain. Without it, we are to die. If so, was the way of physical negation useless? No, it wasn't. One goes through the way of negation in order to reflect things which is denied by its way. One denies and leaves life once in order to reflect it. In order to ask again a real meaning of life. And at last to affirm life. To be alive, desire for need is essential. But modern people like us cannot see the border between real necessaries and unnecessary things and are slaving at getting unnecessary things and distress ourselves for not getting them. In order to see what we really need, once we leave from desire thoroughly and reflect it again. Then we find out what drops out and what remains. Desires such as appetite for maintaining our life, warmth for maintaining our body temperature, sleep for recovering strength and sexual desire for bearing new life, are essential for life, but they will turn into origin of pains when we want them excessively beyond limitation, which is called greed.

"To know satisfaction"

Desire for need remains but greed disappears and we come to know that the earth are full of God's glory and there is no want. Thus peaceful happiness in which we live with thanks for God's blessing appears. And "to know satisfaction", not by penance or hard deeds, but is there easier ways that anyone can take? It is the problem that Amiyan is dealing with. But now that we can see the goal, the road can be shorter, I feel. Let's have help from the power of words, power of scriptures, and the road can be much shorter. Power of faith, power of love? If only we had it, everything would be possible. To get it, there is also the way to have help from scriptures, I guess.