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have carried these mountains of problems all their life for the simple reason that they have been trying to solve the symptoms and not going to the cause of it. And it is easy to solve one symptom, but then the problem will assert itself from somewhere else.
You cannot get rid of symptoms directly; you will have to go to the root. And the stupidity of man is such that he goes on watering the root and cutting the branches. Both things he goes on doing simultaneously because he cannot see the relationship. There is a certain reason why he cannot see the relationship between the branches, the leaves, the foliage, and the roots: the roots are invisible.
You need a very penetrating consciousness to reach the roots, because they are underground and everything else is above the ground -- you can see it. So you see anger, you see jealousy, you see possessiveness, you see greed, ambition, and a thousand and one problems -- and naturally because you see them and you see that they all bring misery... Who does not know that anger brings misery? Who has not suffered from answer? Who has not burned his hands in anger? And who has not tried to get rid of it?
The same is the case with other problems... Nobody wants to remain greedy -- it is ugly and nothing ever satisfies it. You can have as much money as you want and you will still want more because greed means the desire for more. It has no limitation, it is unlimited; it does not believe in limits. So when one limit is crossed... that was only temporary. Greed immediately jumps ahead of you, it is always ahead of you, it is always pointing far away, here, to the horizon. It always keeps the goal the same distance from you; whatsoever you have makes no difference. If you have ten rupees it asks for a hundred, if you have a hundred rupees it asks for one thousand, if you have one-thousand it asks for ten thousand. The distance remains the same.
It is exactly like the horizon: between you and the horizon the distance is always the same wherever you are, because the horizon does not really exist, it is an illusion. Greed creates an illusion of a goal, but it doesn't exist, otherwise people would have
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