Life isn't beautiful for all, none have control of the culture or conditions which we were born into.
As long as there's something to work with, conditions can change.
There are some unfortunates who are born into conditions that have no human possibility of ever changing, those unfortunates make up the yin and the yang or the beauty and the ugliness of life.
You are right Professor, there is not enough virtue to go around in the world but there is certainly enough where-with-all to feed the worlds hungry and clothe them.
Why a person would intentionally bring a human soul[child] into such conditions poverty and inherent conditions of suffering is anyones speculation and conclusion, but it does, none the less, happen.
If all the money were taken away from everyone, and redistributed equally, the ones who previous had it would more than likely wind up with it again, but many could make the few necessary changes to turn their circumstances around.
It probably wouldn't be long before things were "back to normal", snafu.
So maybe money can't but happiness, but a lack of it can sure afford some a lot of grief.
Faced with our own inevitable death which one can only escape through the pathway of the metaphysical. It's a hard teaching to get across, but on their deathbeds, when that sudden awareness overcomes them, even Kings have realized their human frailty and cried out at the last moment for the salvation of their soul.
There is something beyond this apparent phenomenal existence, I prefer to
find it here instead of waiting for the last moment in anguish and despair, having never sought it out.
It fits like an old shoe. One actually becomes comfortable with non-existence, as we now know it.
"I've walked an I've walked till I've worn out ma shoes,
I can't walk no furthur, cause yonder come tha blues."
Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day,
teach a man to fish, and he'll feed his self for lifetime.
anyway, that's my two sense, for what it's worth;
Warm regards Profpat
and Namaste`
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Originally Posted by Profpat  So is the yang good and the yin bad; or is it that the yin is good and the yang bad.
Can't you see the beauty of complementary opposites?
If you try to eliminate the evil you perceive, you'll only create evil elsewhere.
Your world, as I understand it, would be gray, without distinction.
Surely help those who need your help MJA, that is virtue.
I guess you and I will just have to disagree on this.
Best,
Pat |