Needing, Enough, Excess & Shortage
⇐ ⇒ A Buddhist practitioner should lead a simple life but this does not mean depriving oneself to destitute living.
Albert Einstein, he of Relativity theory, once said: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
All things in life, whether mental or material, must be optimally kept at an enough level:
- Need means something indispensable.
- Enough means no residual and no shortage.
- Excess means something must be removed.
- Shortage means something must be added.
- Biggest means there is nothing else besides it
- Smallest means there is nothing else inside it.
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