Anger and Greed
Relationship between Anger and Greed.
Greed is your aggression. It is the desire always for more. It never stops; it goes on asking for more. And because it goes on asking for more, you are always miserable. Whatever you may have, you cannot enjoy it because you don’t have more. By the time you have more, your greed has gone ahead of you. It is always ahead of you, asking for more.
Greed is an aggressive attitude towards existence: grab as much as you can and go on grabbing more and more and more. Waste your whole life and your whole intelligence in grabbing more and more and what is the point? Death will not be late, not even by a single minute. It always comes at the right time, and all that you have grabbed and wasted your life for, you will have to leave here.
You will find all kinds of greedy people and you will find all sorts of greed within yourself. And when greed is not fulfilled, anger arises, frustration arises. You become angry with the world, you become angry with yourself, you become angry with everybody.
You can see it in many elderly people. Why are they so irritated? Why is it so difficult to stand them? That is because they are frustrated people; they have wasted their entire life in grabbing more and more and even more, never satisfied or happy with what they have. The more you get, the more you want and the vicious cycle goes on and on and on….
Therefore, even though they have grown old, they are angry at life, because they don’t know what it is like to be content and happy. Any excuse is enough for them to vent that pent-up anger, and so they become angry. Greed is the root cause and when it is not overcome, it leaves you with great anger, frustration, irritation, dissatisfaction and a sense of failure.
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
