How To Be Both Happy & Wealthy?

“The Rich Also Cry” is a famous 1980s film, depicting the plight of the wealthy. Mariana, a young orphaned girl who thought her only goal was to become rich, believing that money and status would affirm her value and happiness. However, after striving and achieving a certain position, instead of self-affirmation, she faced many pressures and challenges - the kind of struggles that the rich face! And she still could not be happy. Around her, other wealthy people also had no shortage of personal woes.

The film reveals a reality of the rich: despite having money and reaching the pinnacle of fame, they are not at peace.

Why is that? Because peace does not come from mere material sufficiency, peace is understanding: understanding oneself and understanding life.

After many years, and comparing from ancient to modern times, can happiness truly be achieved with wealth?

That is a big question.

However, because this question is difficult to answer, its existence over thousands of years has inadvertently created an opposite trend: no need to be rich, let go of material wealth, to be “saints without money” in life.

Do you see? The problem is, one can only truly let go of something when they have deeply and completely attained it!

Thus, peace does not come from mere material sufficiency, but without sufficiency, peace cannot be reached either. Sufficiency is the first mission of humanity, as we survive in the realm of material.

The mindset of “saints without money” has been applied to the wrong people - by those running away from money due to helplessness, instead of reaching money and learning to let go. This creates a world of people who subtly disdain money from within their subconscious, due to family karma, and creates a force of people who cannot transcend the realm of prosperity to achieve enlightenment beyond the material realm!

Why is this time prophesied to be led by Maitreya Buddha - the Buddha representing prosperity and enlightenment? Because it is time for those who reject material wealth to return and learn its value, and those who have reached the pinnacle of material wealth to move on to the next realm: understanding life and achieving enlightenment.

Why through “money”?

The most outstanding representative of material life is money. Money is humanity’s obsession, and it is also the territory that contains many secrets of the universe. Reaching material is the only way to progress to the higher spiritual realm. Because stability in material life is an expression of deep rooting into the earth. The world of material cannot tolerate those who disdain it. However, it also tests harshly those who rely on it to boast.

Many people want to achieve money but are hopeless, having to justify it with the noble ideology of not needing money.

Similarly, many wealthy people have enough fame but cannot pass the life lessons.

Therefore, happiness has no place between these two types of people.

How to achieve the great fortune of life, the state of freedom through life, experiencing each moment of life fully, to reach a death without regret?

There is a solid path: through achieving money!

The path is also full of thorns!

Due to the misunderstandings about money, the world of those who pride themselves on not having money exists. In that world, money is undervalued and immediately becomes a barrier. A barrier between them and the higher spiritual world. These people, no matter how much they are called to awaken, or enter into practice to cleanse karma, the karma of money will always follow them, to the point where, the deeper they practice, the more they feel missing and empty. That is when they need to face their lack, to recognize the deeply hidden distorted perceptions within them: the perceptions that make them reject money hastily, without understanding it.

And because the rejection of money is so deep, these people will need to go through money once more. This time, it must be thoroughly!

By facing the lack inside due to insufficient material, they will have to overcome the mountains they built themselves by rejecting money. On the path to achieving material, they will achieve great enlightenment for themselves.

And because the mountains are quite high, the process of climbing the mountains is not easy.

Those who once rejected money will have to let go of the noble self-image and face the serious lack within, due to the lack of money.

This is a problem. Letting go of the noble self-image from material is not easy. Because the defensive walls have been built too solidly. They would rather stay in noble deficiency than face the mask of “I let go, so I don’t need money.”

This is the thorniness of those who reject money on the path of wanting to go through money!

On the other extreme, those who achieve money, when their worldly fortune is sufficient, their material journey is complete. At this point, they have the material to step into the higher spiritual life, the life of enlightenment!

Please do not try to say that the enlightened ones before did not need money, or at least they did not come from wealth.

Remember Buddha, a prince at the height of power and wealth. Remember Jesus.

Remember Krishnamurti, Osho, and other great enlightened ones in the present like Sadhguru, they are extremely wealthy!

Because only the pinnacle of prosperity can help them carry out the missions they chose for themselves after enlightenment. (If you wonder, you can read “Mystic’s Musings” about Sadhguru to understand his mission after enlightenment.)

However, not everyone has the intellectual capacity to understand that material life needs to be let go of when reached.

“Don’t let go when not yet reached, but when reached, know to let go. Don’t hold on forever when it is time to let go.”

If you keep holding on to something, you will only receive its remnants. The hand that grips tightly without letting go will turn the precious thing you just harvested into waste.

Those who have not tasted wealth easily let go. But those who have reached the pinnacle often easily immerse in the feeling of always having! They fear not having. Therefore, they hold on to what they have achieved like a treasure.

When you already have a treasure in your hand, a bigger treasure cannot appear.

I know quite a few people who consider money as life. Some others consider material achievements as an untouchable territory. They hold on to the glory of money as if their value lies there! This is a major misunderstanding, equating self-worth with money.

Self-worth is the beauty of presence! Not money, power, status, achievements, knowledge, fame… or anything you have just achieved. But I understand that not many people can grasp it, especially when they are still equating their existence with other life values. When achievements temporarily satisfy the inner needs, leaving that state of sufficiency is a pain. The deficiencies will scream, pull, and make you always find ways to satisfy them. This immediately creates a loop of earning money for financial freedom, then maintaining that “freedom” state through money, not knowing that from then on, it directly creates a lack of freedom!

True freedom has nothing to do with the state of peak financial wealth.

Thus, reaching money and then letting go is a kind of letting go that is not easy. This is true letting go!

Because when you reach the pinnacle of wealth, you will immediately face other voids, where higher experiential realms are waiting. To enter there, you need to go beyond the pinnacle of material you have created.

But letting go, you fear the lack of freedom when no longer having much money.

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