ေမတၱာကို ေငြေၾကးႏွင့္တန္ဖိုးျဖတ္လို႔မရပါဘူး!

"ေငြေၾကးဟာ ဘယ္ေတာအခါမွာေယာက်ာၤးေတြကို ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈကိုမေပးပါဘူး!
ေပးခဲ့ေသာ္၄င္း  ေယာက်ာၤးမ်ားအတြက္ ပို၍ပို၍လိုအပ္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ လစ္ဟာေနတာေတြကို ျဖည့္စြတ္အစားထိုးဖို႔တခုခုေတာ့ေပးဆပ္ရပါလိမ့္မယ္" - ဘင္းဂ်ာမင္း ဖရင့္ခ္လင္း

ေငြေၾကးအေျမာက္အမ်ားပိုင္ဆိုင္ေနျခင္းဟာရိုးသား ေအးေဆးေနထိုင္လို႔မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး! သို႔ေသာ္ ေငြကို ခ်စ္ျမတ္ႏိုးေနရတာေၾကာင့္ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွလဲလံုုၿခံဳ တယ္ လို႔မရွိပါဘူး! ေမတၱာမဲ့တဲ့အခ်စ္ေတြႏွင့္ အၿမဲ တန္းလိုအင္ရမၼက္ေလာဘေတြႏွင့္ျပည္လွ်ံေနတတ္ ပါတတ္ၿပီး ေရာင္ရဲတင္းတိမ္ျခင္းရွိမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ဒါေတြငါတို႔ဆီမွာ ရွိေနရင္ငါတို႔ရဲ႕အျပဳအမႈေတြဟာ ကၽႊန္သာသာဘဲ ရွိပါေတာ့တယ္..
ဒီလိုေငြမက္ေမာေနရင္ လြတ္လပ္မႈဆိုတာလဲရွိမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး!


■ေငြေၾကးဟာငါတို႔အခ်ိန္ကိုအသံုးျပဳေနတယ္. အခ်ိန္တိုင္း ငါတို႔ အၿမဲစဥ္းစားေနတာက ဘယ္လိုရွာေဖြရမ လဲ! ျပဳလုပ္ရမလဲ! ရွင္သန္ရမယ္! စုေဆာင္းရမယ္? ဒီလိုျပင္းျပတဲ့ဆႏၵေတြအတြက္ ေလ့လာရွာေဖြ ဆည္းပူး ေနရတဲ့ အခ်ိန္ေတြကုန္လို႔ကုန္မွန္းမသိကုန္ေနရတာပါဘဲ...:(
 

 

■ေငြေၾကးဟာငါတို႔ရဲ႕အင္အားေတြကိုုျဖဳန္တီးေစတယ္. လုိအပ္

■The love of money wastes our energy. It requires constant, continual attention. After all, no opportunity to acquire more can ever be wasted.

■The love of money devours our values. When the love of money is present in our lives, we become different people. The passion for money is a trap that quickly swallows our heart convictions and causes us to engage in behaviors that we would otherwise avoid.

■The love of money fuels competition. By definition, the love of money requires me to desire what you already possess. For me to gain more, you must part with yours. The world quickly becomes a zero-sum game dominated by jealousy and envy.

■The love of money limits our potential. We can never become greater than that which we most desire. When the acquisition of money becomes our greatest goal in life, we can never become greater than the balance in our bank account. And that’s a shame… we have so many greater things to offer this world.

■The love of money attracts the love of money. Our lives will naturally attract like-minded people. When we love money, we attract others who love money. And the more reinforcement we receive from those around us, the more natural the emotion becomes.

■The love of money destroys other loves. The love of money causes many to sacrifice their true passions and desires just to acquire more of it. It has truly killed many a passionate dream. To determine if the love of money has killed your dreams, answer this question, “If the need for money were not a factor, what would I be doing today?”

How then do we move beyond the desire to acquire more? While entire books have been written on this subject, let me throw out a few thoughts just to get you started toward freedom from the desire to acquire:

1. See money only as a tool to move through life. At its core, money is a bartering tool. It saves us from making our own clothes, tools, and furniture. Because of currency, I can spend my days doing what I love and am good at. In exchange, I receive money to trade with someone else who uses their giftedness to create something different than me. That‘s it. That‘s its purpose. And if you have enough to meet your needs, you shouldn‘t commit the rest of your day to acquiring more.

2. Be content with poverty or great wealth. I know poor people who live in complete contentment and I know rich people who are further from contentment today than when they were lacking. Your possessions do not lead to contentment. Your heart attitude does. And if the love for money limits freedom, contentment is the pathway to it.

3. Avoid debt. A lender is a slave to his creditor. Spending more money than you earn will always result in bondage to another. And there is no simplicity in bondage. If you cannot get out from under the weight of debt, find some help.

4. Learn to share. Sharing your possessions with others benefits the borrower and the lender. So be a lender… and be a borrower.

5. Remember that money comes and money goes. Like the tides of the ocean, money rolls in and money rolls out. Sometimes, there is money left over at the end of the day and sometimes there is not enough. That is the very nature of money. Do not fear its cycles. Welcome them.

I have no hidden dreams of this post magically solving the world’s desire for more. I just hope it helps to balance mine…

Ref:becomingminimalist