Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
Greed is normally balanced by fear.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
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