Wealth & Consciousness Are Compatible?

[SimpleGuy]

22 minutes ago, Davino said:

Could you give me some rationale or concrete examples?

Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.

And I want to be highly conscious but don`t know what awakening does with being highly conscious.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

22 hours ago, SimpleGuy said:

@NewKidOnTheBlock you look like some business type hustler just brainwashed you with his ideas about business and niche. Just see hypocrisy you say about drugs and ff

Hypocrisy means claiming a moral highground whilst in reality having none, where do you see an example of me being hypocritical? If you discover one, I will send you 10€ throught Paypall (oh wait... lmfao). As far as I'm concerned, I'm technically correct about everything I've said here so far

[Leo Gura]

Making a few million consciously is not too hard. Making billions consciously is very hard.

[Eskilon]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

Making a few million consciously is not too hard. Making billions consciously is very hard.

Who will be the first conscious trillionaire?

[Carl-Richard]

No you must barely be able to afford food and work low-wage jobs and not charge for spritual services because that makes you a con artist.

[Lyubov]

20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Making a few million consciously is not too hard. Making billions consciously is very hard.

For sure, but this is a spirituality forum and it goes without saying most people here aren't striving to be billionaires. You can be conscious, wealthy and live your dream life without having to worry about money problems. If someone came here and said they wouldn't accept anything less than a billion my response would be "why do you want a billion?" Obviously anyone doing this work knows you can't be certain about anything and be financially safe, it's an illusion and that money doesn't complete your life. But is fundamental for living and you can live very comfortably and have a great relationship with wealth and money. Having a few million is more than enough to live an actualizes life, fully aligned. It can be done any amount but I would say materially having a upper middle class lifestyle with a ton of free time is a realistic place to shoot for. 

[Leo Gura]

Sure, you guys should strive to make good money. Being poor is no virtue.

[How to be wise]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Sure, you guys should strive to make good money. Being poor is no virtue.

Doesn’t it put you in an egoic consciousness when you focus on the future 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Making a few million consciously is not too hard

Speak for yourself. Lmao

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, How to be wise said:

Doesn’t it put you in an egoic consciousness when you focus on the future 

If you're endlessly mind-wandering about future scenarios and how something might affect you or might not affect you, that's ego. Focusing on the future as in doing things in the now that has consequences for the future, that's not intrinsically egoic. Focusing on the future as in thinking about how to manifest changes in the future is not intrinsically egoic either. Egoic identification is ego. With egoic identification comes a certain habitual, cyclical, persistent, repetitive form of thinking about oneself, whether it's in the future or past or relative present. Egoless thinking is much more action-oriented (ironically), much more purposeful and focused, less "what if" and more "this now".

On the contrary, I think people who are more "focused on the future" spend less time in egoic states overall than those who aren't. Because egoic thinking inhibits productivity. You don't have time to be thinking about yourself if you have 15 deadlines and you're advising 4 students and your kids are sick and you are sick and your wife is sick and you're constantly abroad for meetings and conferences (ask my thesis advisor). In fact, my thesis advisor despite his "future focus" is one of the most psychologically light, grounded and alive people I've met. When you have a lot to do, you think about what needs to be done. And if you're good at doing lots of things, you'll likely primarily think about those things and not much else.

Edited 1 hour ago by Carl-Richard

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, How to be wise said:

Doesn’t it put you in an egoic consciousness when you focus on the future 

Sure, but you gotta handle survival needs.

[Someone here]

 Just my thoughts ..Money is great but after a certain point it loses its value. Imagine you are a millionaire..what the fuck are you gonna do with this money ? Think about it .if you are immature you probably gonna spend it on sex and drugs ..no question about it .only to discover that that doesn't actually buy you happiness and serenity and peace of mind and contentment. I haven't tried doing that but it needs not being tried to conclude such a thing . It will make you temporarily more joyful but at some inevitable point it will simply stop and you will start looking for something else . There is some inherent neutrality to existence and being itself that it doesn't matter what you are feeling or doing it's all just pure awareness . Look at guys with money and hot girlfriends..its not like they can't sleep from the happiness overload .