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| Today, it is considered smart Since people will skip from company to company, rather than seek greater specialization, why not seek to "learn" more than "earn In the short term, it may earn you less In the long term, it will pay off in large dividends
The main management skills needed for success are:
1The management of cash flow
2The management of systems (including yourself and time with family)The management of people
The most important specialized skills are sales and understanding marketingIt is the ability to sell--therefore, to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse or child-that is the base skill of personal successIt is communication skills such as writing, speaking prada logo and negotiating that are crucial to a life of successIt is a skill that I work on constantly, attending courses or buying educational tapes to expand my knowledge
As I have mentioned, my educated dad worked harder and harder the more competent he becameHe also became more trapped the more specialized he gotAlthough his salary went up, his choices diminishedSoon after he was locked out of government work, he found out how vulnerable he really was professionallyIt is like professional athletes who suddenly are injured or are too old to playTheir once high-paying position is gone, and they have limited skills to fall back onI think that is why my educated dad sided so much with unions after thatHe realized how much a balenciaga bag union would have benefited him
Rich dad encouraged Mike and me to know a little about a lotHe encouraged us to work with people smarter than we were and to bring smart people together to work as a teamToday it would be called a synergy of professional specialities
Today, I meet ex-schoolteachers earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a yearThey earn that much because they have specialized skills in their field as well as other skillsThey can teach as well as sell and marketI know of no other skills to be more important than selling as well as marketingThe skills of selling and marketing are difficult for most people primarily due to their fear of rejectionThe better you are at communicating, negotiating and handling your cartier watches fear of rejection, the easier life isJust as I advised that newspaper writer who wanted to become a "best-selling author," I advise anyone else today Being technically specialized has its strengths as well as its weaknesses I have friends who are geniuses, but they cannot communicate effectively with other human beings and, as a result, their earnings are pitiful I advise them to just spend a year learning to sellEven if they earn nothing, their communication skills will improveAnd that is priceless
In addition to being good learners, sellers and marketers, we need to be good teachers as well as good studentsTo be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receiveIn cases of financial or professional struggle, vuitton gold bag there is often a lack of giving and receivingI know many people who are poor because they are neither good students nor good teachers
Both of my dads were generous menBoth made it a practice to give firstTeaching was one of their ways of givingThe more they gave, the more they receivedOne glaring difference was in the giving of moneyMy rich dad gave lots of money awayHe gave to his church, to charities, to his foundationHe knew that to receive money, you had to give moneyGiving money is the secret to most great wealthy familiesThat is why there are organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford FoundationThese are organizations designed to take their wealth and increase it, as well as give it away in white ceramic chanel watch perpetu |
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| The idea of job protection for life and job benefits seemed more important, at times, than the jobHe would often say, "I've worked hard for the government, and I'm entitled to these benefits
The other believed in total financial self-relianceHe spoke out against the "entitlement" mentality and how it was creating weak and financially needy peopleHe was emphatic about being financially competent
One dad struggled to save a few dollarsThe other simply created investments
One dad taught me how to write an impressive resume so I could find a good jobThe other taught me how to write strong business and financial plans so I could create jobs
Being a product of two strong dads allowed me the luxury of observing the effects different thoughts have on one's lifeI noticed that people really do shape their life through their thoughts
For example, my poor dad always said, "I'll never be rich And that prophesy became realityMy rich dad, on the other hand, always referred to himself as richHe would say things like, "I'm a rich man, and rich people don't do mulberry roxanne this Even when he was flat broke after a major financial setback, he continued to refer to himself as a rich manHe would cover himself by saying, "There is a difference between being poor and being broke- Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal
My poor dad would also say, "I'm not interested in money," or "Money doesn't matter My rich dad always said, "Money is power
The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy to be aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myselfI noticed that my poor dad was poor not because of the amount of money he earned, which was significant, but
because of his thoughts and actionsAs a young boy, having two fathers, I became acutely aware of being careful which thoughts I chose to adopt as my ownWhom should I listen to-my rich dad or my poor dad?
Although both men had tremendous respect for education and learning, they disagreed in what they thought was important to learnOne wanted me to study hard, earn a degree and get a good job to work for moneyHe wanted tiffany heart tag me to study to become a professional, an attorney or an accountant or to go to business school for my MBAThe other encouraged me to study to be rich, to understand how money works and to learn how to have it work for me"I don't work for money!" were words he would repeat over and over, "Money works for me!"
At the age of 9, I decided to listen to and learn from my rich dad about moneyIn doing so, I chose not to listen to my poor dad, even though he was the one with all the college degrees
A Lesson From Robert Frost
Robert Frost is my favourite poetAlthough I love many of his poems, my favorite is The Road Not TakenI use its lesson almost daily:
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both black chanel quilted bag that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden blackOh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads onto way, I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost(1916)
And that made all the difference
Over the years, I have often reflected upon Robert Frost's poemChoosing not to listen to my highly educated dad's advice and attitude about money was a painful decision, but it was a decision that shaped the rest of my life
Once I made up my mind whom to listen to, my education about money beganMy rich dad taught me over a period of 30 years, until I was age 39He stopped once he realized that I knew and fully understood what he had been trying to drum into my often thick skull
Money is one form of powerBut what is more powerful is financial educationMoney comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can prada logos begin building wealthThe reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money
Because I was only 9 years old when I started, the lessons my rich dad taught me were simpleAnd when it was all said and done, there were only six main lessons, repeated over 30 yearsThis book is about those six lessons, put as simply as possible as my rich dad put forth those lessons to meThe lessons are not meant to be answers but guidepostsGuideposts that will assist you and your children to grow wealthier no matter what happens in a world of increasing change and uncertainty
Lesson #1 The Rich Don't Work for Money
Lesson #2 Why Teach Financial Literacy?
Lesson #3 Mind Your own Business
Lesson #4 The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations
Lesson #5 The Rich Invent Money
Lesson #6 Work to Learn Don't Work for Money
CHAPTER TWO
Lesson One: The Rich Don't Work For Money
"Dad, Can You Tell Me How to Get Rich?"
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"What is it? What is it?" said Lina
"The door," he panted
Lina's heart leapt"You did?"
Doon nodded
"Is it the way out?" Lina whispered fiercelyHe glanced behind himClutching
Lina's arm, he pulled her into a shadowy spot on
the street "It doesn't lead out of Ember," he whispered
"It leads to a big room
Lina's face fell"A room? What's in there?"
"EverythingFood, clothes, boxes, cansLight
bulbs, stacks of themPiles and piles up to
the ceiling"And someone was
there, in the middle of it all, fendi replica spy bag asleep
"Who?"
A look of horror passed over Doon's face"The
mayor," he said"Conked out in a big armchair, with an
empty plate in front of him
"The mayor!" Lina whisperedThe mayor has a secret treasure room in the
Pipeworks
They stared at each other, speechlessThen Doon
suddenly stamped hard on the pavementHis face
flushed red"That's the solution he keeps telling us
aboutIt's a solution for him, not the rest of usHe
gets everything he needs, and we get the leftovers! He
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stomach!"
Lina felt dizzy, as if she'd been hit on the head
"What will we do?" She couldn't think, she was so
stunned
"Tell everyone!" said DoonHe was shaking with
anger"Tell the whole city the mayor is robbing us!"
"Wait, wait Lina put a hand on Doon's arm and
concentrated for a minute"Come on," she said at last
"Let's go sit in Harken SquareI have something to tell
you, too
At the north end of Harken Square stood a circle of
Believers, clapping their hands and chanel big singing one of their
songsLately they seemed to be singing more loudly
and cheerfully than everTheir voices were shrill
"Coming soon to save us!" they wailed"Happy, happy day!"
Near the Gathering Hall steps, something unusual
was happeningTwenty or so people were pacing
around and around, carrying big signs painted on old
planks and on big banners made of sheetsThe signs
said "WHAT solutions, Mayor Cole?" and "We want
ANSWERS!" Every now and then the demonstrators
would yell these slogans out loudLina mulberry roxanne wondered if the
mayor was paying any attention
Doon and Lina found an empty bench on the
south side of Harken Square and sat down
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"Now, listen," said Lina
"I am listening," said Doon, though his face was
still red and the look on his face was stormy
"I saw Lizzie coming out of the storerooms yesterday,"
Lina saidShe told him about the cans, and
Lizzie's new friend, Looper, and what Looper was
doing
Doon pounded his fist on his leg"That's two of
them doing it, then," he said
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16Where the River Goes 238
19A World of Light 250
20The Last Message 258
The Instructions
When the city of Ember was just built and not yet
inhabited, the chief builder and the assistant builder,
both of them weary, sat down to speak of the future
"They must not leave the city for at least two hundred
years," said the chief builder"Or perhaps two
hundred and twenty
"Is that long enough?" asked his assistantWe can't know for sure
"And when the time comes," said the assistant,
"how will they know what to do?"
"We'll provide them with instructions, of course,"
the chief builder replied
"But who will keep the instructions? Who can we
trust to keep them safe and secret all that time?"
"The mayor of the city will keep the instructions,"
said the chief builder"We'll put them in a box with a
timed lock, set to open on the proper date
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"And will we tell the mayor what's in the box?" chanel classic bags the
assistant asked
"No, just that it's information they won't need and
must not see until the box opens of its own accord
"So the first mayor will pass the box to the next
mayor, and that one to the next, and so on down
through the years, all of them keeping it secret, all that
time?"
"What else can we do?" asked the chief builder
"Nothing about this endeavor is certainThere may be
no one left in the city by then or no safe place for them
to come back to
So the first mayor of Ember was given the box,
told to guard it carefully, and solemnly sworn to
secrecyWhen she grew old, and her time as mayor was
up, she explained about the box to her successor, who
also kept the secret carefully, as did the next mayor
Things went as planned for many yearsBut the seventh
mayor of Ember was less honorable than the ones
who'd come before him, and more desperateHe was
ill--he had the coughing sickness that was common in
the vintage tank watch city then--and he thought the box might hold a
secret that would save his lifeHe took it from its hiding
place in the basement of the Gathering Hall and
brought it home with him, where he attacked it with a
hammer
But his strength was failing by thenAll he managed
to do was dent the lid a littleAnd before he could
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return the box to its official hiding place or tell his successor
about it, he diedThe box ended up at the back
of a closet, shoved behind some old bags and bundles
There it sat, unnoticed, year after year, until its time
arrived, and the lock quietly clicked open
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CHAPTER 1
Assignment Day
In the city of Ember, the sky was always darkThe only
light came from great flood lamps mounted on the
buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the
larger squaresWhen the lights were on, they cast a yellowish
glow over the streets; people walking by threw
long shadows that shortened and old omega watches then stretched out
againWhen the lights were off, as they were between
nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so
dark that people might as well have been wearing
blindfolds
Sometimes darkness fell in the middle of the day
The city of Ember was old, and everything in it,
including the power lines, was in need of repairSo
now and then the lights would flicker and go out
These were terrible moments for the people of Ember
As they came to a halt in the middle of the street or
stood stock-still in their houses, afraid to move in the
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utter blackness, they were reminded of something they
preferred not to think about: that someday the lights
of the city might go out and never come back on
But most of the time life proceeded as it always
hadGrown people did their work, and younger people,
until they reached the age of twelve, went to
schoolOn the last day of their final year, which was
called Assignment roxanne mulberry bag Day, they were given jobs to do
The graduating students occupied Room 8 of the
Ember SchoolOn Assignment Day of the year 241,
this classroom, usually noisy first thing in the
morning, was completely silentAll twenty-four
students sat upright and still at the desks they had
grown too big for
The desks were arranged in four rows of six, one
behind the otherIn the last row sat a slender girl
named Lina MayfleetShe was winding a strand of her
long, dark hair around her finger, winding and
unwinding it again and againSometimes she plucked
at a thread on her ragged cape or bent over to pull on
her socks, which were loose and tended to slide down
around her anklesOne of her feet tapped the floor
softly
In the second row was a boy named Doon
HarrowHe sat with his shoulders hunched, his eyes
squeezed shut in concentration, and his hands clasped
tightly togetherHis hair looked rumpled, as if he
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| Moriarty and our consulting editor, Upasaka Harry Leong, both of whom spent numerous hours assisting us in many ways on this project
This book is respectfully dedicated to two persons of special significance in our lives: Upasaka Nguyen Van By and MrsUncle By will always be appreciated for his support of several branches of the Nguyen and Le-Trung families in post World War II Vietnam and MrsUlrich for her sponsorship, directly and indirectly, of some threescore members of the extended Van Hien clan to these shoresBoth are responsible, in great measure, for our successful integration in North America on the threshold of this new millennium
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| It is rare that a seller will actually ask a price that is less than something is worth
Moral of the story: Make offersPeople who are not investors have no idea what it feels like to be trying to sell somethingI have had a piece of real estate that I wanted to sell for monthsI would have welcomed anythingI would not care how low the priceThey could have offered me ten pigs and I would have been happyNot at the offer, but just because someone was interestedI would have countered, maybe for a pig farm in exchangeBut that's how the game worksThe game of buying and selling is funIt's fun and only a gameSomeone might say "yes
And I always make offers with escape clausesIn real estate, I make an offer chanel pearl necklace with the words "subject to approval of business partner I never specify who the business partner isMost people do not know my partner is my catIf they accept the offer, and I don't want the deal, I call my home and speak to my catI make this absurd statement to illustrate how absurdly easy and simple the game isSo many people make things too difficult and take them too seriously
Finding a good deal, the right business, the right people, the right investors, or whatever is just like datingYou must go to the market and talk to a lot of people, make a lot of offers, counteroffers, negotiate, reject and acceptI know single people who sit at home and wait for the phone to ring, but unless you're Cindy chloe bag bay Crawford or Tom Cruise, I think you'd best go to the market, even if it's only the supermarketSearch, offer, reject, negotiate and accept are all parts of the process of almost everything in life
?Jog, walk or drive a certain area once a month for ten minutesI have found some of my best real estate investments while joggingI will jog a certain neighborhood for a yearWhat I look for is changeFor there to be profit in a deal, there must be two elements: a bargain and changeThere are lots of bargains, but it's change that turns a bargain into a profitable opportunity So when I jog, I jog a neighborhood I might like to invest in It is the repetition that causes me to notice slight differencesI notice christian dior saddle bag real estate signs that are up for a long timeThat means the seller might be more agreeable to dealI watch for moving trucks, going in or out I stop and talk to the driversI talk to the postal carriersIt's amazing how much information they acquire about an area
I find a bad area, especially an area that the news has scared everyone away from I drive it for sometimes a year waiting for signs of something changing for the betterI talk to retailers, especially new ones, and find out why they're moving inIt takes only a few minutes a month, and I do it while doing something else, like exercising, or going
to and from the store
?As for stocks, I like Peter Lynch's book Beating the Street for his mens gucci watches formula for selecting stocks that grow in valueI have found that the principles of finding value are the same regardless if it's real estate, stocks, mutual funds, new companies, a new pet, a new home, a new spouse, or a bargain on laundry detergentThe process is always the sameYou need to know what you're looking for and then go look for it!
?Why consumers will always be poorWhen the supermarket has a sale on, say, toilet paper, the consumer runs in and stocks upWhen the stock market has a sale, most often called a crash or correction, the consumer runs away from itWhen the supermarket raises its prices, the consumer shops elsewhereWhen the stock market raises its prices, the consumer starts replica cartier tank buying |
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| I have friends who keep working even though they have plentyI know people who have millions who are more afraid now than when they were poorThey're terrified of losing all their moneyThe fears that drove them to get rich got worseThat weak and needy part of their soul is actually screaming louderThey don't want to lose the big houses, the cars, the high life that money has bought themThey worry about what their friends would say if they lost all their moneyMany are emotionally desperate and neurotic, although they look rich and have more money
"So is a poor man happier?" I asked
"No, I don't think so," replied rich dad"The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being black gucci bags attached to money
As if on cue, the town derelict went past our table, stopping by the large rubbish can and rummaging around in itThe three of us watched him with great interest, when before we probably would have just ignored him
Rich dad pulled a dollar out of his wallet and gestured to the older manSeeing the money, the derelict came over immediately, took the bill, thanked rich dad profusely and hurried off ecstatic with his good fortune
"He's not much different from most of my employees," said rich dad"I've met so many people who say, `Oh, I'm not interested in money' Yet they'll work at a job for eight hours a dayThat's a denial of truthIf they weren't interested dior saddle bag in money, then why are they working? That kind of thinking is probably more psychotic than a person who hoards money
As I sat there listening to my rich dad, my mind was flashing back to the countless times my own dad said, "I'm not interested in money He said those words oftenHe also covered himself by always saying, "I work because I love my job
"So what do we do?" I asked"Not work for money until all traces of fear and greed are gone?"
"No, that would be a waste of time," said rich dad"Emotions are what make us humanThe word `emotion' stands for energy in motionBe truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself
"Don't tiffany co earrings worry about what I just saidIt will make more sense in years to comejust be an observer, not a reactor, to your emotionsMost people do not know that it's their emotions that are doing the thinkingYour emotions are your emotions, but you have got to learn to do your own thinking
"Can you give me an example?" I asked
"Sure," replied rich dad"When a person says, `I need to find a job,' it's most likely an emotion doing the thinkingFear of not having money generates that thought
"But people do need money if they have bills to pay," I said
"Sure they do," smiled rich dad"All I'm saying is that it's fear that is all too often doing the thinking
"I don't understand," said replica pasha cartier Mike
"For example," said rich dad"If the fear of not having enough money arises, instead of immediately running out to get a job so they can earn a few bucks to kill the fear, they instead might ask themselves this question`Will a job be the best solution to this fear over the long run?' In my opinion, the answer is `no' Especially when you look over a person's lifetimeA job is really a short-term solution to a long-term problem
"But my dad is always saying, `Stay in school, get good grades, so you can find a safe, secure job' I spoke out, somewhat confused
"Yes, I understand he says that," said rich dad, smiling"Most people recommend that, and it's a good idea for most black spy bag people |
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vicious rumor? It was the truth! He didn't understand
it
He did understand, though, that Nammy Proggs
had done him a favorShe must have seen that the
guards meant him no goodShe had protected him, at
least for the moment, by sending the guards to the
wrong place
Doon forced his mind to slow down and think
Why did the guards think he and Lina were lying?
Obviously, they hadn't investigated the room in
Tunnel 351If they had, they'd have known he and
Lina were telling the truth
He could think of only one other possibilityThe
guards--at least some of them--already knew what
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the mayor was doingThey knew about it and wanted
it to stay a secretAnd why? It was clear: the hermes kelly handbag guards,
too, were getting things from the storerooms
It had to be the answerFor a moment, the fear
he'd felt when he saw the guards was replaced by rage
The familiar hot wave rose in him, and he wanted to
grab a handful of his father's nails or pot shards and
throw them against the wallBut all at once he remembered:
if the guards were after him, they'd be after
Lina, tooHe dashed down the
stairs, his anger turning into power for his running
feet
After discovering the room full of boats, Lina had
come home to MrsMurdo's with the sound of the
river still in her earsIt was like a huge, powerful voice,
roaring at the top of its lungsDeep inside herself
Lina felt an answering call, as if she, too, contained a
drop of the same powerShe omega deville watch would ride on the river-- she could hardly believe it--and it might take her to
the shining city she had dreamed of, or it might
drown herWhat she had imagined before--the
smooth, gently sloping path leading out--now seemed
childishHow could the way into a new world be so
easy? She dreaded going on the river, but she was ready
for it, too
She slept that night in the beautiful blue-green
room, in the big, lumpy bed with Poppy next to her
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She felt safe hereMurdo came in and tucked the
covers around herShe sat on the edge of the bed and
sang an odd little song to Poppy--something about
rock-a-bye baby, in the treetops"What are treetops?"
Lina asked, but Mrs"It's a very
old song," she said"It's probably fake chanel bag nonsense words
She said good night and went out into the living
room, where Lina could hear her humming quietly
as she tidied upShe never left
her stockings draped over the back of a chair, or her
sewing spread out all over the tableLina closed her
eyes and waited for sleep
But her thoughts kept tumbling aroundSo much
was going to happen tomorrow--the whole city would
be in an uproarPeople would stream down into the
Pipeworks to see the boatsThey'd be excited, shouting
and laughing and crying, packing up their belongings,
and surging through the streetsIf they couldn't all fit
into the boats, there would be fightsSome people
might get hurtIt was going to be a messShe'd have to
keep her little family close around her--Poppy, gucci men wallet Mrs
Murdo, and Doon, and perhaps Doon's father and
ClaryThrough it all, she would hold tight to Poppy so
no harm could come to her
It seemed she had barely closed her eyes when she felt
Poppy's hard little heels banging against her shins
"Time-a get up! Get up!" Poppy chirped
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She got out of bed and dressed herself and PoppyMurdo was mashing potatoes for
breakfastHow lovely, Lina thought, to have breakfast
cooked for her--to hear water bubbling in the pot, and
to find a bowl and a spoon set out on the table, and
vitamins lined up neatly beside a cup of beet teaI
could live here forever, Lina thought, before she
remembered that in a day or two they would all be
leaving
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This was difficult with fast-moving creatures like
moths and spidersTo learn anything about them, he
had to catch what glimpses he could as they lived their
lives out in the openIf he put them in a box, they
scrambled around for a few days and then died
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This worm, though, was differentIt seemed perfectly
happy to live in the box Doon had made for it
So far, it did only three things: eat, sleep (it looked like
sleeping, though Doon couldn't tell if the worm closed
its eyes--or even if it had eyes), and expel tiny black
poop balls
"I've had it for five days now," said Doon"It's
twice as big as it was when I got itIt's eaten two square
inches of cabbage chloe bags paddington leaf
"You're writing all this down?"
Doon nodded
"Maybe," said his father, "you'll find some interesting
new bugs in the Pipeworks
"Maybe," said DoonBut to himself he said, No,
that's not enoughI can't go plodding around the
Pipeworks, stopping up leaks, looking for bugs, and
pretending there's no emergencyI have to find something
important down there, something that's going to
help
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CHAPTER 4
Something Lost, Nothing Found
One day when Lina had been a messenger for several
weeks, she came home to find that Granny had thrown
all the cushions from the couch onto the floor, ripped
up a corner of the couch's lining, and was pulling out
wads of paolo gucci women's watches stuffing
"What are you doing?" Lina criedWisps of sofa stuffing stuck to
the front of her dress and clung to her hair"Something
is lost," she said"I think it might be in here
"What's lost, Granny?"
"I don't quite recall," said the old woman"Something
important
"But Granny, you're ruining the couchWhat will
we sit on?"
Granny tore a bit more of the covering off the
couch and yanked out another puff of stuffing"It
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doesn't matter," she said"I'll put it back together
later
"Let's put it back now," Lina said"I don't think
what's lost is in there
"You don't know," said Granny darklyBut she sat
back on her heels, looking tired
Lina began cleaning up the j12 chanel diamond watch mess"Where's the
baby?" she asked
Granny gazed at Lina blankly"The baby?"
"You haven't forgotten the baby?"
"Oh, yesI think she's down in the shop
"By herself?" Lina stood up and ran down the
stairsShe found Poppy sitting on the floor of the
shop, enmeshed in a tangle of yellow yarnAs soon as
she saw Lina, Poppy began to howl
Lina picked her up and unwound the yarn, talking
soothingly, though she was so upset that her fingers
trembledFor Granny to forget the baby was dangerous
Poppy could fall downstairs and hurt herselfShe
could wander out into the street and get lostGranny
had been forgetful lately, but this was the first time
she'd completely forgotten about chanel handbags on sale Poppy
When they got upstairs, Granny was kneeling on
the floor gathering up the white tufts of stuffing and
jamming them back into the hole she'd made in the
couch"It wasn't in there," she said sadly
"What wasn't?"
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"It was lost a long time ago," said Granny"My
father told me about it
Lina sighed impatientlyMore and more, her
grandmother's mind seemed caught in the pastShe
could explain the rules of pebblejacks, which she'd last
played when she was eight, or tell you what happened
at the Singing when she was twelve, or who she'd
danced with at the Cloving Square Dance when she
was sixteen, but she would forget what had happened
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But his loneliness and fear were so severe that he made the effort to ask her to accompany him to the other worldThe fourth wife gladly accepted her husband's request
'My dear husband,' she said; 'I will go with youWhatever happens, I am determined to be with you foreverI cannot be separated from you'
This is the story of 'A Man and His Four Wives'
Gautama Buddha concluded the story as follows:
'Every man and woman has four wives or husbandsWhat do these wives signify?
THE FIRST WIFE
The first 'wife' is our bodyWe love our body day and nightIn the morning, we wash our face, put on clothing and shoesWe give food to our bodyWe take care of our body like the first wife in this storyBut unfortunately, at the end of our life, the gucci g watch body, the first 'wife' cannot follow us to the next worldAs it is stated in a commentary, 'When the last breath leaves our body, the healthy color of the face is transformed, and we lose the appearance of radiant lifeOur loved ones may gather around and lament, but to no availWhen such an event occurs, the body is sent into an open field and cremated, leaving only the white ashes' This is the destination of our body
THE SECOND WIFE
What is the meaning of the second wife? The second 'wife' stands for our fortune, our material things, money, property, fame, position, and job that we worked hard to attainWe are attached to these material possessionsWe are afraid to lose these material things and wish to possess much moreAt the end of our chanel quilted bags life these things cannot follow us to deathWhatever fortune we have piled up, we must leave itWe came into this world with empty handsDuring our life in this world, we have the illusion that we obtained a fortuneAt death, our hands are emptyWe can't hold our fortune after our death, just as the second wife told her husband: 'You hold me with your ego-centered selfishnessNow it is time to say goodbye'
THE THIRD WIFE
What is meant by the third wife? Everyone has a third 'wife' This is the relationship of our parents, sister and brother, all relatives, friends, and societyThey will go as far as the graveyard, with tears in their eyesThey are sympathetic and saddened
Thus, we cannot depend on our physical body, our fortune, and our chanel necklace societyWe are born alone and we die aloneNo one will accompany us after our death
THE FOURTH WIFE
Sakyamuni Buddha mentioned the fourth wife, who would accompany her husband after his deathWhat does that mean? The fourth 'wife' is our mind [or Alaya consciousness]When we deeply observe and recognize that our minds are filled with anger, greed, and dissatisfaction, we are having a good look at our livesThe anger, greed, and dissatisfaction are karma, the law of causationWe cannot be separated from our own karmaAs the fourth wife told her dying husband, 'I will follow you wherever you goSeki: 106ff
PARABLE 055: GEM IN THE ROBE (BUDDHA NATURE)
Lotus Sutra (ch8):
A destitute man once visited the home of a close friend, seeking his helpAs rolex submariner 50th anniversary the two were enjoying wine together, the poor man fell asleepMeanwhile, his host was called away on urgent businessBefore departing, however, he "sewed a jewel into one corner of his friend's garmentThe friend, not aware of this, made no attempt to use the jewel even when in serious straitsThen upon meeting his friend many years later, the man who had sewed it into his garment pointed it out to him and thus enabled him to get out of his difficulties
Hurv: xiii
The jewel stands for the omnipresent Buddha-Nature which we all possess as our birthrightUnaware of this, many of us do not seek Buddhahood, but settle for lesser goalsEditor: na
PARABLE 056: GHOST STORY (SAMADHI)
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