*** 克服貪婪的三個方法 ***
反向來平衡貪婪(greed)的方法就是變得極端的慷慨大方。假如你是非常大方，那麼貪婪會離你遠去。(並不是隨便地做)，而是可以有另一個方式來表現慷慨大方。假如你家裡有一些東西，並不是沒有用而想丟掉它，而是你覺得你其實可以不需要這種東西，你應該送給他人才對。當你開始思索你可以送給誰，你可能立即會想到："某人沒有這個東西，我可以送給他"。而且假如你送給他，他將會十分感激，他會對你說各種好聽的話，這些話都是一般常人不會對你說的！你會驚訝到施予所帶來的喜樂，及人們會何等喜歡你的慷慨大方！
人必須要慷慨大方，是對別人慷慨，而不是對自己慷慨，而且要盡可能大方。慷慨贈予的行為是給予他人愛，這也是表達你的愛的方式之一。
另外一個去除貪婪的方法：你應該試著去做一些幫助大眾的社會工作。假如你去貧困百姓居住的地方(去幫助他們)，你(內心)的貪婪馬上會下掉！那些人的生活狀態及生活環境會讓你啞口無言，你不會再關心你的財富及種種，他們的情境會給你一個很大的震撼！
在印度，有些人是非常的誠實。我家裡的僕人就從來不會偷任何東西，這是十分令人驚訝！為什麼？為什麼他們不會偷竊呢？因為他們安於他們的生活，他們(也)不想因偷竊而被關入監獄，他們不想改變他們目前的生活。他們根本不會想到偷竊這回事，他們根本不會去做這種事，為什麼？因為他們有羞恥心。在一些貧窮的百姓中，羞恥心(反而)有高度的發展。在他們的社群裡面，他們非常尊敬誠實的人，他們也都非常誠實，或許其中也有少數人不誠實，但是這種人是不被尊敬的，因為他們認為自我尊重(self-respect)是最重要的。這是很難想像的，他們甚至一天只吃一餐，可是對他們而言，自我尊重是比任何事都來得重要。所以如何對付這種毫無意義的貪婪呢？ 第三個方案就是你的自我尊重。為什麼你要去偷竊呢？為什麼你要去擁有這些偷來的東西？或擁有那些屬於別人的東西呢？假如你的内裡有自我尊重的心，你就不會去碰觸不屬於你的東西，那些貧窮的僕人都做得到，為什麼更富裕的人們做不到呢？這是一種他們所擁有的更高階、更進化的心態，即他們的自我尊重遠比那些可能滿足貪婪之心的東西來得更重要！
關於貪婪有一點非常重要，即貪婪之心永遠不會被滿足！(在追求金錢及權力之下)，人處在那裡呢？是處在什麼位階呢？是處在進化過程的什麼位階呢？那些人如不停轉圈圈的老鼠一般，一直追逐金錢，這是臍輪的問題，臍輪必須要加以清理改善，正是臍輪給予人們滿足感！
註一：江瑞凱摘譯Shri Mataji在錫呂俱毗羅 (Shri Kubera Puja，即財富之神) 的談話2002-08-18。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。
The only way to counter-balance is to become extremely generous.
If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. That may be another way of
doing it. Supposing you get something in your house and you think it is too
much. Not to get rid of it, but just to think it’s too much, you should give it
to someone. You just start thinking whom can you give and immediately you’ll
remember, “Oh, that person doesn’t have this. Let me give him this.” And if you
give him, he will be so thankful, so thankful and he’ll say all kinds of nice
things to you, which normally nobody would say to you, nobody. And it’s
surprising how joy giving it is, how people like your generosity.
So you have to be generous, just generous, not with yourself,
but with others. As much as possible be generous. Generosity is very love
giving, one of the expressions of your love. ......
Another thing is to get rid of greed; you should try to do some
sort of a collective social work. Supposing you go to some place where lots of
poor people are there, I tell you, your greed will just drop. Be amazed how
these people are living, in what conditions. Why do I care for all the wealth and
everything? That will be just shocking. ......
So the third solution for this kind of a nonsensical greed is
your self-respect. Why should you steal? Why should you have anything that is
stolen or why should you have anything that belongs to another person? If you
have that self-respect within you, you won’t touch anything that is not yours.
When the servants can do that, why not people who are not that badly off. It is
a temperament of a higher level, I think, which they develop, where their
self-respect is much more important than all kinds of other things that may
satisfy their greed. One thing about greed is it is never satisfied. It is
never satisfied. ...... But they want to have power because they want to have
money and they get power with money. Can you imagine? Where are human beings?
At what level? At what level of evolution they are? They are going round and
round the circle of this money. This is Nabhi Chakra, which has to be improved,
which gives you satisfaction.
